A typical Western accessory par excellence, the tie has always been an icon of style and personality in a man who wants to be elegant. Tell me tie you wear and I’ll tell you who you are! A sentence well apt because as we teach the English colleges that use the tie as “social status” (every college has a different direction to immediately identify the belonging to a university), the color, the size and the node to communicate Who we are facing that kind of person we are, what message we want to send and the idea that everyone has of himself. The utility It consists to hide the row of buttons of his shirt.
The length is approximately 150 cm, this figure may vary depending on the height of the wearer and the type of used node (a node with multiple steps will take more fabric and therefore need a longer tie ) and etiquette must arrive until the beginning of the pants. Based on recent research conducted, a man in tie transmits “more confidence.” This is to mean that in addition to being a “quirk”, has become in effect a symbol of “reliability”. Over the years, many designers have tried to change this vision by launching new fashions and offering itself on the market with the idea of the tie as an accessory useless, inconvenient and inelegant.
In fact, the popular idea has never been disrupted. This chameleon-like accessory that has evolved with time, it is used in very different ways, such as men most extravagant use it even on a sports clothing . Today in the market there are many different kinds of neckties at prices varying so that each person can afford to have one or more in their closet. But where did this strange piece of cloth? How many kinds of ties exist? What are the known nodes? And, more importantly, how to choose the right tie? Let’s find out together!
History and origins of the tie. The earliest precursor of this complement were our French neighbors, which among other things hence the name, cravat or tie. It is said that the Croatian knights in the service of Louis XIV wore a handkerchief tied around his neck reminded that our current idea of tie. In the nineteenth century, Beau Brummel made itself heard: man from extroverted and unique look always came home with a scarf around his neck. In the late 1800s the ‘ Exeter College of Oxford introduced as official uniform of a ribbon tied around his neck that was the first real tie (though far from the aesthetic point of view from the present one) is used. Finally in 1924 this accessory , thanks to Jesse Langsdorf (American from New York), took the form that we all know today. Realized that the solution was in the cut of the cloth : an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the grain line and three strips of silk sewn later. Jesse patented this discovery and today the “quality ties” are still produced with the same procedure.
How many kinds of neckties are there? If we were in the 40s the answer would be easy, but today, types of ties on the market are many and varied, suitable for every taste and occasion. The main categories in which they are grouped can be divided in this way: plain , characterized by mono color, striped, where we find the double color that is one of “background” predominant and the other on the strips (which may be more or less large) oblique; fantasy, which may have printed a number of reasons based on what the house prodruttrice decides to record, trendy, ties that are brightly colored and very extravagant; dotted where there is a color that dominates the base and then dots (which may also be of different shape such as squares, triangles) of different color.
