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?”.
is mike leslie for sale?
gharv- you know that mike leslie isn’t for sale! not to you, not to those “fake-ass A&Rs”, not to nobody!
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.
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?
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.
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.