Show us your TIES

[Widebrim]

^^'Tis too difficult. I'll wait until the QM Event to decide...

 

[jamespowers]

^^'Tis too difficult. I'll wait until the QM Event to decide...

Well, at least it was a wide tie that you would have paid money for.

 

[Widebrim]

^^Yes, you may take consolation in that fact...

 

[jamespowers]

^^Yes, you may take consolation in that fact...

I do. I do.

 

[Widebrim]

QB, let me know if you find the tie in Fit to be Tied. Maybe even a screen shot if it's not trouble? That would be cool.

I just checked my copy of the book, and can't find that tie. Hopefully QB will go over his copy...

 

[Gene]

I just checked my copy of the book, and can't find that tie. Hopefully QB will go over his copy...

Couldn't find it in mine either! However I did find a different colored version of one of mine [huh]

 

[Quigley Brown]

Couldn't find it in mine either! However I did find a different colored version of one of mine [huh]

Sorry to make you guys look. I can't even find my FTBT copy.....:eusa_doh:

 

[herringbonekid]

i recently acquired a batch of deadstock 1930s French ties. i can easily imagine some of the more jazzy, brash ones being sported by the small time gangsters down the local Bal Musette.

(this is a bistro rather than a Bal Musette, but you get the idea):

the widest ones are 4.5".
all are very short.

 

[herringbonekid]

 

[Two Types]

HBK: The green and white diagonal stripes and the blue/green sort of checked ties are fantastic. And thanks for posting the pics of the labels.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

I really like them all. Maybe the green/white one in the first close up is even better. I think I could do completely without bold look ties if I had some more of this style.

 

[herringbonekid]

Flo, you should have bought them while you had the chance you silly billy.

they're not actually that much different from the 20s / 30s American ties i usually wear:

 

[Baron Kurtz]

That's what I was thinking. Very Superba-ey.

I love that era of US ties (see my The Chap piece) - incredibly diverse patterns and solid construction in superior materials (until 1929, at least, when the ****e started to creep in).

bk

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

Flo, you should have bought them while you had the chance you silly billy.

yes. I am stingy....but I really have to be. :eusa_doh:

 

[Widebrim]

Sorry to make you guys look. I can't even find my FTBT copy.....:eusa_doh:

Give me 50 push-ups...

 

[Mario]

Flo, you should have bought them while you had the chance you silly billy.

You could say the very same thing to me - and I would reply with the very same words Flo used.
Those are some wonderful ties you fetched there.

Trouble is these days that most really nice ties on Ebay start at around $25 or so.

I also love really that US-tie on the left...well, actually I love both of them...

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[Widebrim]

You could say the very same thing to me - and I would reply with the very same words Flo used.
Those are some wonderful ties you fetched there.

Trouble is these days that most really nice ties on Ebay start at around $25 or so.

Which is why I'll be putting up some more ties here on the Lounge very soon, Mario.

 

[Mario]

Which is why I'll be putting up some more ties here on the Lounge very soon, Mario.

What?!? To ask $25 per tie? :eeek:

Last time I went looking for ties here in Berlin I only found amazingly dreadful 60's/70's technicolor ties.
I guess all the good ones have been used as wicks for Molotov cocktails during Berlin's infamous 1st of May 'celebrations' back in the 80's...

 

[Widebrim]

What?!? To ask $25 per tie? :eeek:

Nein, mein Herr! You know that I sell for much lower...

 

[Mario]

Nein, mein Herr! You know that I sell for much lower...

Selbstverständlich, mein Herr. Of course I do...