Shirt tie

SHIRTS STYLE ADVICE

A shirt tie: is a shirt that is worn with a tie. A tie is a long piece of cloth worn around the neck or shoulders, resting under the shirt collar and knotted at the throat. The tie is really making a comeback in its pure formal dress wear functionality. Oscar Wilde already mentioned: ”A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.” Nevertheless, it is true that there are less adepts of a shirt tie than before as more and more people think : “If the brain needs oxygen, why wear a tie?”.

Style Advice: A shirt tie is part of regular office attire or formal wear. It can be also worn as part of a uniform. The use of coloured and patterned neckties indicating the wearer’s membership in a club, military regiment, school,…dates only from the late 19s century England. In the US, diagonally striped ties are commonly worn with no connotation of group membership. Different neckties sizing are nowadays available. The perfect traditional tie is a sufficiently heavy and thick tie in order to hang perfectly. It is mostly worn closed but can be ‘casual’ with a top shirt button unbuttoned.