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Help with tie or bow tie

jfclarky

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I am getting married and my fiancee told me that I would look trashy wearing a tie instead of a bow tie.

What is the general rule or consensus on this topic?

I have tried searching the forum but found nothing.


No picture of the tux but I will be wearing a white shirt with with a collar. The tux jacket will be single breasted with two buttons, black in color.
 

bleachboy

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You're wearing a tuxedo? You wear a bow tie.

Ignore the red carpet types that wear skinny black neckties with their tuxedo. Fifty years from now, when you're looking at your wedding pictures, you don't want to look like a douche.
 

dunga

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Originally Posted by jfclarky
I am getting married and my fiancee told me that I would look trashy wearing a tie instead of a bow tie.

What is the general rule or consensus on this topic?

I have tried searching the forum but found nothing.


No picture of the tux but I will be wearing a white shirt with with a collar. The tux jacket will be single breasted with two buttons, black in color.

Why wouldn't you wan't to lewk like this:
84982666.jpg
 

jfclarky

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Originally Posted by dunga
Why wouldn't you wan't to lewk like this:
84982666.jpg


enough said

That guy is fantastic, Layer Cake is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Now all I have to do is make it look it I had this idea all along because I will never hear the end of it.
 

cptjeff

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Originally Posted by jfclarky
I am getting married and my fiancee told me that I would look trashy wearing a tie instead of a bow tie.


She's right.
 

KObalto

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You have great taste in women. +1.
 

ktrp

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She sounds almost as good as my coworkers gf.

She said she'd stop ********** with him if he monogrammed his shirts.
 

ter1413

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Originally Posted by ktrp
She sounds almost as good as my coworkers gf.

She said she'd stop ********** with him if he monogrammed his shirts.


Another keeper!
 

mrhills0146

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Originally Posted by jfclarky
I am getting married and my fiancee told me that I would look trashy wearing a tie instead of a bow tie.

Sounds like a classy lady.
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If you are wearing a tux, wear a TIED bow tie. If you can tie your shoes you can tie a bow tie.
 

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