The first day at work I didn’t wear a tie. It didn’t occur to me at the time that I took a risk and could have made a bad first impression but, no one else wore one either.
Ties in the corporate world

The first day at work I didn’t wear a tie. It didn’t occur to me at the time that I took a risk and could have made a bad first impression but, no one else wore one either.
It was extremely good timing for me that Pitti Uomo 87 was on while I was recovering from sinus surgery as being bedridden with nothing but my Mac and Instagram feed to keep me entertained, meant that I could follow the show like a fat kid watching a cake bake.
Bow ties are extremely difficult to wear properly,
In Dressing The Man, a book that is deemed by countless as important to the literature of men’s fashion – and certainly to me – Alan Flusser reported on the Taylor cut as, “British-inspired, with narrow shoulders, shaped torso, slant pockets, and deep vents”.
I have always been fond of beautiful ugliness in clothing.