fat/skinny ties
i know where these crazy ties come from- people’s dads. but where do they go when dad gets wise and scraps the lot? some got sewn into the legs of jeans in a short-lived 90s fad. others less fortunate are destined to get used in halloween “loud white guy” costumes. this sighful eye-full might harbor a future hair-ribbon, quilt piece, tourniquet, or colorful lasso, but many of it’s ilk will only ever get dusty. billy blue bought one the other day and wore it to a gig- the tie had buttonholes in the smaller end so you could button it to your shirt and not have it fly all over hell. he asked and i ask too, why don’t all ties do this? also he wanted to know what the deal was with small / skinny ties, namely, why would you ever wear a fat tie. i called jenine for a tie width chronology, but she was away from her phone. jenine, when are fat ties coming back in? and why?
ties - $1 per
This picture of Mike reminds me of Christopher Lloyd’s character in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”.
December 19, 2006 @ 4:33 pm
is mike leslie for sale?
December 19, 2006 @ 8:07 pm
gharv- you know that mike leslie isn’t for sale! not to you, not to those “fake-ass A&Rs”, not to nobody!
December 19, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
hmmmm. what I know about neckties:
1930’s/1940’s - ties were kinda fat. not TOO fat. they had more of a flare to them though. like they kinda curved out at the bottom. bowties were still popular as well.
1950’s/1960’s - skinny ties were popular with mods and hipsters. the flat ended tie became very popular (not pointed on the bottom). these flat-ended ties were usually skinny. I’ve seen fat ones though. my uncle gave me several of these. some were woven. one he gave me was batik.
1970’s - ties got disgustingly fat. like ties a circus clown would wear. this is the bulk of what you see at thrift stores.
1980’s - ties got ridiculously skinny. sometimes made of leather. I bought a record recently with a pic of a guy in a super-skinny, white, leather tie with round studs going down it. I also found a polka-dotted tie at a thrift store that was so skinny I didn’t think it was a tie at first. but after much examination I declaired it a necktie because it appeared to be ever so slightly tapered. and it’s constructed like a necktie.
1990’s - I remember neckties being really popular with the girls in my middle school circa 92 or so. was this true for anybody else? I can’t say there’s anything particularly interesting about 90’s ties though. average width I guess. I bet this is when novelty ties started to come into their own. like Bugs Bunny ties, etc, etc. lots of stuff graphics that were airbrushed on.
December 20, 2006 @ 2:53 am
good lookin’ out, two drinks, but what does the future hold? ties with flash drives in them? what about a tie that’s a subtle display that gets messages from your bluetooth and changes color depending on how much unread email you have?
December 20, 2006 @ 4:34 am
yeah, something like that would make a lot of sense. they have the scrolling belt buckles which you can program a phrase into. those are kind of neat in a very nerdy way.
of course, if you’ve watched Back to the Future Part 2 or been to a party with Alex Curtin, you’ll know that in the future we’ll all wear 2 neckties at once.
December 28, 2006 @ 1:41 pm
i predict that fat ties as we know them will come back in 2012. in 2013 they’ll be fatter still and more multi-purposed.
March 9, 2008 @ 6:31 pm