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I just bought this for $20:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140894909994&ssPageName=ADME:B:BCA:AU:3160#ht_4381wt_1057

From the a seller who says she is "currently the vice-president of the Tie Society of Australia".

Her website:

http://tietalk.vpweb.com.au/default.html

http://www.tiesociety.com.au/

FXH: are you a member?

This lady has a store at Rozelle markets in Sydney every Sunday.

I hope to get a pair of the GG Hove, one day.

Don't know about favourite, but there are some nice ones that I stalk but can't afford...

Edward Green bottom right...





Carmina...



There are others around that are cheaper.

I had a pair of pj pants with side adjusters and he added belt loops later for me. Can be done

Probably already jamin in nirvana

           These are up there for me! Gaziano and Girling at it's finest! 

 

 

 

    

 

Ohhh yeah! Don't quote me l think he taught Brian Jones from the Stones... Classic sitar action in Paint it Black!

Last Stones show of their 50th tour is on pay for view on Fox on Sunday, very tempting.

 

 l caught them last at the 40 Licks Tour down in Sydney, amazing stuff. The obviously didn't play the less known gems, awesome nonetheless.

 

Keeping things all sartorial Charlie Watts was/is one hell of a sharp cat!

 

 

 

No skinny aenemic lapels here!

 

as in, own? i only have a simple black pair of Hickey Freemans in split toe bluchers. they don't see the sunlight too often though ):  

Never heard of it until now.

Seem like people who collect "fun" ties - if so not for me.

I just saw Fry on QI repeat the shallow theory that the Croats invented the tie and it was taken up by the French hence cravat named - the French word for Croats.

However ties or a form of neckwear has been around longer than that.

The famous Terracotta Warriors of the eight thousand strong underground army buried in front of the Emperor Qinshihuang's tomb (r. 221-207 BC) can be seen to wear different forms of what we can easily recognise as ties or cravats or scarves. . Some of the Warriors can be seen to be wearing a variation of a FIH.

At the time chinese knew about silk and had were able to weave silk to make ties. In 16 BC during the reign of Ch'eng Ti his frontier garrison was given one million rolls of silk = 10m long X 53CM wide.

The early Romans did too. the soldiers on the Column Of Trajan in Rome A.D 113 has some 2000+ figures engaged in battle. The largest of the soldiers sculptured in relief about 60 - 70- cm high are wearing neckcloths. Some like a scarve around their neck and tucked into armour, others like knotted kerchiefs as in cowboy movies, and others with a short version of a FIH in silk or wool.

Around the Pacific and other islands, in the Americas and across to africa, neckwear in the form of feathers, shells, or precious metal and were symbolic of, at least, if not actual, markers/granters of authority and status.

Note even from this small sample of pics there is a great variation in the way the ties are worn suggesting they were clearly an item of fashion, style and / or rank and some considerable care was taken with the arrangement around the neck. Clearly Brummel wasn't the first dandy to fiddle with his neckwear for hours each morning.

See pics below.

Chinese Warriors and their ties (221-207 B.C.) Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Romans and their Ties (A.D. 113) Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Edited by fxh - 12/12/12 at 3:37am

Not a great fan of STBs.

Have the Carminas pictured above and they're nice enough though.

$20?

 

I bought this for $2:

 

 

For a pair of NST I think the Meermin Cordovan offering is pretty good, although I've seen mixed reviews on their leather quality.

http://meermin.es/ficha_articulo.php?id=2363

 

Come to me, I hate flying.