Have you ever worn a tie "ironically"?

[ButterflyBlood]

This seems to be a new fashion trend at my job, where it's the only circumstances where anyone would wear a tie. My friend who is in a band usually does it when they're playing too. He wears a tie, along with a T-shirt and significantly ripped jeans.

This is probably the only circumstance in which I would wear a tie. However in order to do so I would have to both: 1-Own a tie and 2-know how to tie one.

[hobbit709]

1. I haven't owned or worn a tie since I got out of the Air Force in 1973.

Ironically or any other way.

[Doc Holliday]

2. If I'm not in a suit

I won't wear a tie.

The last time I was in a suit, I was walking my daughter down the aisle as "Color My World" played through the sound system. That three years ago. I'm just not a suit-and-tie person, and never wanted to be...which has probably held me back in life to some degree.

[rug]

3. If's ironic to think wearing a tie ironically is ironic.

[HopeHoops]

4. I had to tie one for my daughter's boyfriend - facing him. It was a challenge.

I was still able to get a nice knot, but then I had trouble with MY OWN FUCKING TIE!

[EvolveOrConvolve]

5. If I wore a tie ironically

I'd have to kick my own ass. Ties are for 1) getting a job; 2) getting married; and 3) getting buried. Otherwise, they're just useless decoration, whether worn seriously or ironically.

[hobbit709]

6. Done the first two without one and am planning to do the last without one.

[Alexander]

7. You mean like this guy?

[OriginalGeek]

8. I grew up going to church

I know how to tie a tie.

But I always tied my ties with a full windsor and it was perfectly symmetrical and correctly proportioned. I was one sharp tie tier.

So we recently went out to eat at a fancy restaurant to celebrate our friends' anniversary and the place was definitely a tie kind of place so I whipped out my tie tying skills and got dressed and was looking good and feeling good and off we went.

And I get to the place and look around and somewhere in the last 35 years or so it seems to have become fashionable to tie ties in all these half-assed, asymmetrical, sloppy looking knots! Grown men walking around with their ties tied like they got their drunken, arthritic grandmothers to do it for them! WTF?


Damn hippies.

[ButterflyBlood]

9. I grew up going to church too and never wore a tie

I go to one now where you will never see anyone wearing a tie unless they are doing this. The most "dressed up" people will be the ones wearing a polo shirt instead of a T-shirt or jeans without holes in them, and the pastoral staff do not always fit in this category.

[OriginalGeek]

11. Heathens!

[hedgehog]

10. Slightly off-topic, but I was at a business meeting in South Korea

(not to be bragging) and was fascinated when one of the very dignified young men came in wearing a seriously flashy tie.

We went shopping at the small factory town where the plant is, and saw some really wild ties for about $10. I bought one for my daughter featuring a pattern of tiny flourescent pink pigs arranged in stripes on a lavender background. The expensive ties featured metallic threads and rhinestones!