I got my first bow tie in college by completing a dare. A friend of my dared me to wear clothes he hand-picked out of the "missionary barrel": a polyester green shirt and plaid pants. I had to wear them through lunch; my reward was a Ralph Lauren/Polo bow tie. Since then, I've slowly acquired a number of bow ties and like to wear them on most occasions.
In fact, I typically wear a bow tie the first day of class (have since college). I don't, however, wear a bow tie when I'm preaching: I'm fearful of being too self-conscious and having people wondered, "Did he tie that himself or is that a clip-on?" instead of listening to the sermon.
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I do have to commend you on the bow-ties. I don't know if I could ever wear them. For some reason, I tend to associate bow-tie wearing with cumberbund wearing.
And I hate those things.
I had a bow-tie in the 70's. It was big and red. I think my mother sold it with my leisure suit. Well, what goes around comes around!
More power to you!
I wonder if a bow-tie would be consider a power tie?
This is Shea! I am a big bow tie wearer. And being a southern sociologist (by hobby), I will be wearing my bow tie, on Easter Sunday, with my seersucker suit. Glad to see we have something else in common. Some of the guys and me have laid odds on how many seersuckers will be in church Sunday. LOL! Once again I look forward to your sermon.
I wear them most of the time. My students mock me. Phillistines.
NAF
Anyone who would mock you, Bro. Finn, is clearly culturally illiterate.
I've seen Shea in seersucker and bow tie. For an engineer, he cleans up well.
Sean: Knowing you are a fellow WSJ reader and fellow bow tie-wearer, I almost sent you a note to make sure you read this. I've become a huge fan of Cooper Ray's website--socialprimer.com, all because of this article. Vindication is fine thing, is it not?
Yes, it is, Kevin; yes, it is.
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