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style of knot with collar.

Philip1978

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what knot styles go best with what style of collar?
 

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4-in-hand or a derivative thereof. Nothing else cuts it in my book.
 

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4-in hand for any type of collar? or what does it work with best?
 

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Originally Posted by DrCool1978
4-in hand for any type of collar? or what does it work with best?
For me, yes. A windsor looks tacky to me. I think of it as the collar that you see in communist countries, and even more in countries that were communist a few years ago. The four in hand is a much better, less pretentious look.
 

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I always tie a single/half windsor. Nice balance, but hard to dimple. Four-in-hands usually just wind up being too small. As for being pretentious, I doubt that 95% of Americans could even tell the difference.
 

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I like the Shelby knot nice inverted triangle shape.
 

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Originally Posted by iammatt
4-in-hand or a derivative thereof. Nothing else cuts it in my book.
QFT.
 

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Originally Posted by Edward Appleby
QFT.
I disagree. I think that the FIH looks sloppy with any kind of spread kind of like a buffoon who can't learn how to a knot any other way.
 
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The half Windsor is the only way to go. Depending on the outfit, it can be tasteful without being pretentious or casual without being sloppy.
 

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Originally Posted by jml90
I disagree. I think that the FIH looks sloppy with any kind of spread kind of like a buffoon who can't learn how to a knot any other way.

Nothing worse than a four-in-hand that can't fill a spread, except maybe for a Full Windsor under a button-down.

I prefer the Half-Windsor with a medium-spread collar. The best of all possible worlds!
 

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I like to wear a FIH w/ a keaton spread collar...a really skinny one
 

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I find the asymmetrical form of the FIH to be quite elegant, even with a full cutaway collar, which I often wear. The great thing about the FIH is you can vary its bulk by wrapping the tie around an additional time. I used to tie half windsors, but after awhile, I found them to exhibit a certain undesirable look of contrivance.
 

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