My Opinion on Seven-Fold Ties.

[LabelKing]

I've rarely seen an attractive seven-fold tie. They all look like they were meant to be handed out at a graduating class of bankers alongside Thomas Pink shirts.

Has anyone an acceptable one to share?

 

[Hard2Fit]

FWIW, I've started to feel the same way myself.

 

[lakewolf]

I really don't care about the folds. Maybe I am missing something important.

I do like ties that produce and nice and neat solid-looking knot. But I get that with most woven ties, standard ones.

What is the difference ( aside the price ) that the seven fold gives to you.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by lakewolf

I really don't care about the folds. Maybe I am missing something important. I do like ties that produce and nice and nead solid-looking knot. But I get that with most woven ties, standard ones. What is the difference ( aside the price ) that the seven fold gives to you.
Seven folds generally give you a rather bulky knot. They are also usually of rather substantial silk and oftentimes have rather gaudy looking designs that wouldn't look inappropriate on a mildly successful self-sovereign with a Porsche.

 

[iyorito]

I'm perfectly happy with the regular ties.

 

[Eustace Tilley]

Give Sam Hober a shot. Many RTW seven-folds on sale are way too bulky to be attractive. David will work with you to choose the best lining (which determines the thickness).

 

[edmorel]

I don't buy the ties based on their folds, I just buy what I like. The one 7 Fold I have, an RLPL, is actually rather nice and is not in the least way bulky. It's unlined and though the silk is woven, it drapes and feels like a lighter weight printed silk.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by edmorel

I don't buy the ties based on their folds, I just buy what I like.

+1. I have maybe half a dozen 7-folds (or double-fours or whatever) and none of them ties up too bulky.

 

[gvibes]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Seven folds generally give you a rather bulky knot. They are also usually of rather substantial silk and oftentimes have rather gaudy looking designs that wouldn't look inappropriate on a mildly successful self-sovereign with a Porsche.
I have kind of a big head and broad shoulders, so I feel I need a correspondingly larger knot. Then again, I'm mildly successful and own a Porsche, so who knows.

 

[dopey]

True seven fold ties are not bulky and they are unlined. Some manufacturers make lined ties that are folded and call them seven folds but they are not - those are usually pretty bulky.

 

[Sam Hober]

Originally Posted by edmorel

I don't buy the ties based on their folds, I just buy what I like. The one 7 Fold I have, an RLPL, is actually rather nice and is not in the least way bulky. It's unlined and though the silk is woven, it drapes and feels like a lighter weight printed silk.
Ed, You have explained multiple folds well with your example, it is all about choices. Your tie although woven and perhaps a heavy woven drapes and feels like a lighter silk. Some gentlemen like the slim knot of an unlined seven-fold. Seven-folds are also very elegant and fascinating in the same way a complicated mechanical watch is.

 

[josepidal]

I'm rather confused why seven folds are singled out here, since silk and lining are at least as much a factor. Maybe you tried doing a Windsor knot with an old Carlo Franco tie with thicker silk and lining?

Does anyone have a particular knot preferred for sevenfolds, though? I can do Windsors comfortably with Kiton, Borrelli and Bulgari sevenfolds.

 

[Tomasso]

Originally Posted by iyorito

I'm perfectly happy with the regular ties.
Me too. I'm blind to the hype.

 

[itsstillmatt]

I have a hard enough time finding tie silks that I would actually wear to worry about how many folds they have.

The one thing I will not buy is a tie that makes a large knot. Those, be they 3,5 or 7 folds, are hideous to my eye.

 

[tlmusic]

I just ordered my first unlined seven-fold tie from David Hober. It will be on a very conservative pattern with a smallish knot.