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Roger Moore era 007: what tie knot?
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Looks like a four-in-hand to me, but the tie has a thick lining, is made of thick material, or both. Also, I believe ties were quite wide generally in the '70s, that, too would mean the knot would be large, as the width round the knotted area would add to the knot's size.
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If I remember correctly, Fleming, through Bond, expressed the view that men who wore a Windsor knot were cads. If it wasn't Fleming, it might have been Le CarrÃ
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If I remember correctly, Fleming, through Bond, expressed the view that men who wore a Windsor knot were cads. If it wasn't Fleming, it might have been Le CarrÃOriginally Posted by AndrewRogers
Yes, I just can't remember the exact quote, but it was "mark of a cad"
Funny, how his villains in the movies wear Windsors.
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Probably a FIH, I didn't think Bond wore much else.Originally Posted by Zenny
Looks like it; it seems that the Duke of Windsor actually just wore thick ties in a FIH knot. That's probably what this is. In his memoirs A Family Album, the Duke explains that it was his specially made thick ties, rather than a complicated knot, that produced the effect.
'The so-called ''Windsor knot'' in the tie was adopted in America at a later date. It was I believe regulation wear for G.I.s during the war, when American college boys adopted it too. But in fact I was in no way responsible for this. The knot to which Americans gave my name was a double knot in a narrow tie - a ''slim Jim'' as it is sometimes called. It is true that I myself have always preferred a large knot, as looking better than a small one, so during the nineteen twenties I devised, in conclave with Mr Sandford, a tie always of the broad variety which was reinforced by an extra thickness of material to produce this effect. As far as I know this particular fashion has never been followed in America or elsewhere.'
If I remember correctly, Fleming, through Bond, expressed the view that men who wore a Windsor knot were cads. If it wasn't Fleming, it might have been Le CarrÃOriginally Posted by AndrewRogers
It was Fleming, in the first chapter of From Russia with Love.
"Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad."
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If I remember correctly, Fleming, through Bond, expressed the view that men who wore a Windsor knot were cads. If it wasn't Fleming, it might have been Le CarrÃOriginally Posted by AndrewRogers
This gets quoted often, but it's worth remembering that the movies, particularly the Roger Moore films, bore almost no resemblance to Fleming's books, so looking to the books to figure out what he was wearing in the movies maybe pointless.
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If I remember correctly, Fleming, through Bond, expressed the view that men who wore a Windsor knot were cads. If it wasn't Fleming, it might have been Le CarrÃOriginally Posted by AndrewRogers
cf. http://www.styleforum.net/showthread...07#post1466307
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Originally Posted by raphael
What tie knot is this? Much gratitude...
I just realiced how similar Moore was to the " handsome" of the A Team
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