I do have one somewhere. One of the few things my father left me when he died... well actually, he didn't leave it to me, he left it to my sister, who passed it on to me along with some cuff-links; after all, what was she going to do with them?

I am not, however, much into bars worn on the tie.

Reading of chains and stuff, my next thoughts are with the old fob watch, and pince-nez. Very retro in both cases, I think.

Oh, and did you notice the Windsor knot in the tie?

Have to agree. Great series of videos.

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

The FDA has approved GMO Salmon.

Unlike my dad, the men's clothier, I have always preferred the asymmetry of the four-in-hand knot to either the Windsor or half-Windsor. Less bulky too. Just all around "smarter". DSFDF

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

America's best burritos...

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Wow that's a lot of weight loss, roughly 45 pounds by my rough calculation. Looking great there, Rowan.

That's the strange thing, though. I'm talking about rocking the suspenders with jeans. IDGAF. :lol: I'm pretty sure I'm going to seek out some brown/NOT black ones and go for broke this winter. Most of my button up long sleeve casuals have a lot of reds and earth tones. I occasionally wear khakis as well. I've always been a do-your-own-thing kind of guy when it came to fashion, so why not now?

You should start a thread about this.

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"Looking for NOT belts"

:lol:

There you go. :thumb:

Good luck with that!

Robert, it's obvious you don't care what you eat, so long as it's processed, convenient and trouble-free. That's your choice, and good luck with that.

Now if someone were to call you a sucker or an idiot for taking your stance you might be the first one to complain that it's an insult, when actually your "panties" comment is every bit an insult as well. This is exactly how feuds typically start on these forums.

So in the interest of avoiding a feud it would be appreciated if you removed your insult before others respond in kind and then I'm caught in the middle. And I'd hate to see what might happen if some other mod peeked in here and didn't agree with my pacifist approach. Get my drift?

A nice suit can make anyone look respectable.

Even a mechanic.

Sort of.

Buttons, not clips.

In other news: Baby WO2W may finally have a name. After months of agonizing and trying to pick something that wasn't too weird, but not too popular, we landed on a name that has been in the top ten for 2+ decades, and was number 1 for a little over a decade until a couple of years ago. :lol: I'm not sure what's wrong with me. Full name: Jacob Sylvan Whitney. (I'm Jonathan Whitney BTW)

Yeah, it has been mega popular, but looking at some maps it appears that during its longest run at the top, it was mostly northern and midwestern states that used it, not the south/southwest where we are. We thought really hard and couldn't think of a single Jacob we knew growing up and we couldn't think of any families we knew with kids named Jacob. And really, we just love the way the full name sounds. The middle name requires some backstory, but the short version: a band I've known for years released an album called Sylva recently and it's gorgeous and helped me grieve my father's passing. It's of Latin origin and means wood or forest.

Man, naming kids is hard.

Your surname offers great possibilities, and it appears you have taken good advantage of that. Great name.

I should say that the greatest name I have ever heard was owned by a little girl my wife taught: Whitney Rothschild. Gotta be successful, right?

Are you saying I have a big nose?
https://i.warosu.org/data/ck/img/003...0013347057.gif

Personally, I was thinking I was starting to look like Rick from Walking Dead season 5.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5273697146.jpg

i agree with the grymes sentiment, though without the "dead inside" behind his eyes

...in those bygone days of yore when I was a preppie, we were mostly into the half Windsor. I honestly cannot recall why. :o

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...I kept some ties from waaaay back when I wore them to work in an office. I kept them mainly to remind me never to work in an office again. :)

I tie my tie in the manner of the first YouTube video that pops up.

Course, when I went to school in the Olde Country, I tied it one time, then hung it on a door knob every night.

I used to be all about the full windsor because it had this air of sophistication about it to a teenage me. These days with the narrower ties in style, I prefer the Half Windsor, if I even wear a tie which is super rare these days.