Here's a tie website...

[Michaelson]

...I came across in a recent 'Antiques Roadshow Insider' mag tonight I thought you tie fans would like to see.

http://www.geocities.com/knot.geo

Enjoy!

Regards! Michaelson

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

Cool!

 

[Slicksuit]

Very neat! It makes me wonder if we could get a central repository for old hat ads together, all in one place?

 

[redavis001]

great site, thanks.

Davis

 

[Fletch]

Very neat! It makes me wonder if we could get a central repository for old hat ads together, all in one place?

Back Advertisements for Stylish Hats = B.A.S.H.

 

[CharlieH.]

I'll say those ties are anything but nasty.... and get a load of them Dali designs!

 

[Speedster]

Cool site.

 

[Feraud]

Very nice!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Cool. Unfortunately they don't have my favourite Cheney cravats ad. The one from 1933/34 with a tie covered in Swastikas.

bk

 

[Feraud]

Cool. Unfortunately they don't have my favourite Cheney cravats ad. The one from 1933/34 with a tie covered in Swastikas.

bk

Was the ad a political comment or the Swastika in it's historic form?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I dunno, but shall we say the timing seems a little more than fortuitous. Seems that the arms are bent in the same direction as the famous one. The designs on the ties are not such that one would expect a link to Hinduism.

bk

 

[The Wingnut]

Swastikas were a fairly popular symbol of good luck even outside the context of Hinduisim and the NSDAP. Items with them are still somewhat easy to find in many antique shops. I've got a poker chip with one on it and I see them surface often enough that they must have been produced in large numbers. I saw the entire original set in all the different colors with a rotating Bakelite tray recently.

A central repository for golden era hats and related material would be a great thing. I've known of KNOTS for some time now, when I was first getting into vintage, it was a great assist in learning about ties.

 

[Feraud]

A central repository for golden era hats and related material would be a great thing. I've known of KNOTS for some time now, when I was first getting into vintage, it was a great assist in learning about ties.

We need "picture only" stickies at the top of different rooms where members can post their hats, ties, cufflinks, suits, etc.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

We need "picture only" stickies at the top of different rooms where members can post their hats, ties, cufflinks, suits, etc.

The problem with that....as I see it...is hosting. If its members individual hosting, then you end up with dead photos as members forget they had a link to that picture and move it off their hosting.


Happens in threads (especially the older ones) all the time.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

there was a plan in motion to get some of this type of idea going on the Golden Era website . . .

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

A very cool website. It's easy for that site to accumulate such photos without having to buy a single tie: all the webmaster has to do is grab the pics from eBay auction pages. A lot of those Dali tie photos came directly from eBay pages.

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[Baron Kurtz]

Here's that Cheney Cravats ad.

The pertinent part of the ad. Note that the design was available in red (top left of rope) and blue (bottom left wave, top right wave).

bk

 

[Fletch]

Did red or blue swastikas with a black-and-white dot in the middle mean anything at all in America in 1933? [huh]

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I would have imagined the general swastika meme was beginning to be propagated throughout the world in 1933/34 - just before/after the assumption of supreme power. After 1936/37, i'd say you would NEVER see a swastika on a tie.

bk

 

[Fletch]

propaga(tion)...propaga(nda)...???

Suppose it was a case of some fluffbrained textile designer doodling on a sketchpad after reading the morning paper?
Or did the German Consulates in various cities put out press releases, maybe even a hokey fashion show along the lines of Lucky Strike, to make the American public Hakenkreuz-conscious?