Tie By Tie 13 (Oldies But Goodies)

I was born in 1970 and pretty much grew up on the music of the 70's and the 80's.  In fact I have 7 (70's) and 8 (80's) as pre-set stations in my car on XM radio which is pretty stupid if you think about it because its just as easy to flip the dial one station as it is to hit the pre set button but whatever :-) )  As such, it kills me to hear a remix of an oldie but goodie as invariably (at least in my opinion) the remix doesnt make it better it makes it worse.

Happily, that is not the case with remakes of ties that were successful in earlier seasons.  If it was a tie that we introduced in earlier seasons and sold out quickly we often did a remake and when we did we  added all the improvements that we had done throughout the seasons, like self tipping, wool interlinings for better shape retention and other things.

Here is one of those oldies but goodies, a tie from our original launch that was unique in its  satin and brown copper like look  pictured first with a navy suit, then with a brown.

Navy Suit, Light Blue Shirt, Green based Multicolored Floral Square (not yet shown on the site) :



Shown here a detail of the square:



Swapping out the square for a detailed Crop, Bridle and stirrup print in red, brown and some green:



With the final look as so (Intentionally positioned so that the green shows as green works well with navy):



changed the suit for a deep dark brown and the square for a large painted paisley with slate blue and burnt rust/orange highlights:


With the final shown here:

Red, White and Blue

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In keeping with the blog's fascination (obsession?) with  Brown suits I show here a brown suit with, red, white (actually off white) and blue ties.

First up a Blue thick twill tie with a predominantly red  square.  The red square was used to brighten it all up a bit.



Tucked away in the pocket the ensemble looks like this:



Moving right along to the deep red solid tie you get this look.  Here I left the square but repositioned it so that there was more blue peeking out.  Even then I didn't like the red, thinking that there was enough red with the tie so that it now looked cheap, so I swapped it out for the one below.



There, that's better.  The parasol square here tones it down introducing some burgundy and off white with traces of blue yet mainly browns.



Really now, isn't this  square magnificent?



Here the off white mini paisley tie adds a subtle look to the brown and blue combo.  The off white blends well with both the blue of the shirt and the brown of the suit.  The square again serves only to complement the entire look.



Finally, having had this multi stripe tie out from last weeks work I slipped it in there.  As you can see, the purple does quite well with the brown. That dear reader though is for another day ;-)