How large is too large for ties with larger prints?

[josepidal]

For those of you who like ties with prints, I was wondering where you draw the line on when prints are too large and go over to cartoonish. I like how you can use the likes of the usual Ferragamo, Hermes and Vineyard Vines styles can be used as virtual solids with a check or stripe shirt, but I was thinking how far beyond that is within good taste (someone is going to post a picture of some looney tunes tie, of course). I saw that my university has a line of Vineyard Vines ties with the school seal, which are a bit larger than usual prints, and I thought that sort of thing draws the line.

Could you post some photos of the printed ties you like with slightly larger prints?

 

[itsstillmatt]

I wouldn't wear Vineyard Vines, Hermes or Ferragamo, but I do prefer prints to wovens in general.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by iammatt

... but I do prefer prints to wovens in general.

That would make you quite unique at this particular moment in sartorial history.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by josepidal

I like how you can use the likes of the usual Ferragamo, Hermes and Vineyard Vines styles can be used as virtual solids with a check or stripe shirt
Umm ... you can?

I mean you can, but should you?

Check out Drake's and Marinella's prints. Those are the scale that I think works best with the widest variety of shirting and suiting patterns. No animals, chains, belt straps, children's show characters, or sporting equipment.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Manton

Umm ... you can?

I mean you can, but should you?

Check out Drake's and Marinella's prints. Those are the scale that I think works best with the widest variety of shirting and suiting patterns. No animals, chains, belt straps, children's show characters, or sporting equipment.
Those are the ones that I like as well. Also check the English Printed Silks on Mulberrywood. While there are some that I love and some that I do not, they are very good examples of the types of prints that I do like. Part of the problem for me with wovens is that they seem to have gotten thicker (which is fine) and so have the interlinings (which is not) and you end up looking like you are wearing a baseball under your chin. This week I have seen a collection of absolutly stunning printed silks that are super suft and unlined in seven fold and make the most beautiful small knots. The only downside (for most) is that they are probably 7.5 or 8 cm wide, so they fall slightly outside the lines of classic. They very much resemble the ties of the 50s and make a beautiful, if small, knot.

 

[LabelKing]

I think the whole concrete idea of "good taste" limits to a fault.

 

[itsstillmatt]

LK, this argument must have gotten lost on its way to the straw man party being held on the interchange.

Nobody said anything about good or bad taste. I wouldn't wear penguins or yachts or turkeys on my ties because they are ugly to me. Same goes for varius types of S&M chains like those featured by Hermes.

 

[LabelKing]

I think Josepidal talks about whether it is in good taste to wear overly large prints on ties.

Either way, I was more referring to the whole notion of an all-encompassing "good taste" such as certain ties paired with certain shoes and certain types of furnitures in a certain type of house. All an issue of certain without any certaintity as to one's own inclinations.

 

[Manton]

I like to wear ties with epistemological symbols. Charvet makes them for me, bespoke. They are rather droll. They were a favorite of homosexual mid-20th century Hungarian counts.

 

[LabelKing]

I don't wear ties; I prefer bow ties.

They are rather large butterfly bow ties. I like how they clash when I go to Folsom Street Festival. I wear grey Brooks Brothers and carry a walking cane with a nice little hand as a head--it gives fisting a whole new meaning.

 

[josepidal]

I guess sometimes you see printed ties at a bargain, including eBay where you have to imagine how it'll look with a shirt and jacket, and you wonder if it'll look cartoonish.

 

[lawyerdad]

I think if this question arises when you look at a tie, you should give it a miss.
I wear t-shirts and a baseball cap with the logo of my alma mater. Except perhaps in very specific circumstances, I would not want it on a tie.