The Denver Post reported this week at considerable length on a significant surge in the sale and wearing of bow ties. I hadn't noticed this, but I don't get around much anymore. particularly among gentlemen of fashion.
Many years ago, when on duty in the newspaper business. I was expected always to wear a proper suit, and with it a proper necktie. I took that to mean the traditional long, flowing tie, and would never have been caught dead -- or alive -- wearing a bow tie.
Never owned one. Never wanted one.
Men in suits have always had three choices.
They may wear the traditional necktie, conventional but perhaps a bit stuffy. They may go about with open collars, comfortable but perhaps a bit sloppy. Or they may wear a bow tie, looking a bit like prize pigs.
I vote for sloppy.
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