Ties

[HighlandDougie]

So what’s wrong with laziness? “Lazy” is too often used as a pejorative term. It depends on the context. Some very “busy” people spend large parts of their lives doing things which are either completely pointless, or which don’t need to be done so frenetically.

Aieh! I've tried to suppress the inner pedant but, "reeks of laziness", please, not, "wreaks". And I'm with Jayne on this thread - WTF?

[doversoul1]

Aieh! I've tried to suppress the inner pedant but, "reeks of laziness", please, not, "wreaks". And I'm with Jayne on this thread - WTF?

Ties can tell you a lot about the wearers / non-wearers. I find them very interesting.

Incidentally, (male) directors / conductors of early music ensembles are very often tie-less. It doesn’t look odd to me maybe because I have become used to seeing them that way.

[Dave2002]

Ties can tell you a lot about the wearers / non-wearers. I find them very interesting.

Incidentally, (male) directors / conductors of early music ensembles are very often tie-less. It doesn’t look odd to me maybe because I have become used to seeing them that way.

The garb worn by conductors of many orchestras and ensembles is "interesting". In recent years something like a cleric's frock seems to have become popular by some. I'm thinking of conductors like Jurowski and Mark Elder, but they're not the only ones.

Furtwangler and members of the BPO were wearing white bows in 1942 in a performance of Beethoven's 9th. In other performances he was wearing a black bow, as was also Toscanini. Beecham seems to have worn dark ties at rehearsals, but certainly at some concerts he wore a white bow, with a waistcoat - probably light grey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA83lt-Kg0M&list=RDvA83lt-Kg0M&start_radio=1&t=61

I'm not always against ties, but there are times and places .....

[Serial_Apologist]

The garb worn by conductors of many orchestras and ensembles is "interesting". In recent years something like a cleric's frock seems to have become popular by some. I'm thinking of conductors like Jurowski and Mark Elder, but they're not the only ones.

Furtwangler and members of the BPO were wearing white bows in 1942 in a performance of Beethoven's 9th. In other performances he was wearing a black bow, as was also Toscanini. Beecham seems to have worn dark ties at rehearsals, but certainly at some concerts he wore a white bow, with a waistcoat - probably light grey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA83lt-Kg0M&list=RDvA83lt-Kg0M&start_radio=1&t=61

I'm not always against ties, but there are times and places .....

Herbert Lom wore a silver white tie against a navy blue shirt in the original 1956 version of "The Ladykillers". At age 12 I really wanted a white tie, to be worn against a dark blue shirt. That was probably the start of my love of ties - that not-quite-respectable, sharp look. Later I fancied a white tie-black shirt combo, not realising the black shirt connection. "You'll end up with a knife in your back if you wear that in France", my father told me, as I was about to embark on a school exchange visit.

[Richard Tarleton]

Like me! A female colleague once tried to use a pair of scissors on my tie

If you went (don't know if this is still the case) into The Bear in Oxford in an interesting regimental, club etc. tie, the landlord would reach across the bar with a large pair of scissors and cut the end of it off, for mounting in their collection. There is a picture of the collection on the home page of their website. I saw this happen once or twice - perhaps any alumni of Oriel College (which I'm not) may know if this practice continues.