How Many Different Ways Do You Know to Tie a Tie?

[BvBPL]

How many ways do you know to tie a neck or bow tie? What are they? Do you have a favorite, and if so, why is that particular knot your favorite?

 

[Antilogic]

I know the basic three--schoolboy, half-windsor, and full windsor. I think the schoolboy looks terrible and the full windsor is too big for my neck and ties (I don't have skinny ones), so half-windsor it is.

 

[Zelig]

Half-windsor is the only one I can do from memory because it's the only one I bother with 99% of the time.

I'm familiar enough with the four-in-hand, pratt and full windsor that I can figure them out without much difficulty by looking them up on a phone if I need them.

 

[bhsup]

Four in hand and half windsor. I like the four in hand, personally. It makes for a nice slender knot, and I think the slant across the top of the knot is cool.

 

[cybrxkhan]

One way. I don't even know what it's called, it's just the way my father and mother taught me. In fact, while I was aware that there are different way of tying ties I never knew there were actual names for them. I sucked horribly at tying ties until a couple of years ago, though I suppose that's something that ran on the family - up until he died, my grandfather was so incompetent at getting his ties right my mother had to do it for him all the time.

 

[Farm Boy]

Half windsor usually works well enough. Getting old enough the full might start working though.

 

[Antilogic]

Four in hand and half windsor. I like the four in hand, personally. It makes for a nice slender knot, and I think the slant across the top of the knot is cool.

I can't stand the lack of symmetry. Like, that is the perfect knot for when you stumble into work two hours late, unshaven, unkempt, and fully hung over from a night of heavy drinking because you divorced your wife.

 

[bhsup]

I don't like the heavy bulk look of either of the windsor knots, though. The four in hand is slender, sleek, sexy.

Lucky for you, at least you don't like dimples, so you have that going for you. You still like the wrong tie, though.

 

[Antilogic]

Come on, my good sir, the four-in-hand is at best a hot mess-kind of knot. At best.

(I am at least consistent with my tie knots, though!)

 

[Farm Boy]

I can't stand the lack of symmetry. Like, that is the perfect knot for when you stumble into work two hours late, unshaven, unkempt, and fully hung over from a night of heavy drinking because you divorced your wife.

Totally this. It's a teenager knot. Maybe an intern knot. But that's pushing it.

 

[BvBPL]

I can't stand the lack of symmetry. Like, that is the perfect knot for when you stumble into work two hours late, unshaven, unkempt, and fully hung over from a night of heavy drinking because you divorced your wife.

Perfect for lawyers!

 

[bhsup]

Come on, my good sir, the four-in-hand is at best a hot mess-kind of knot. At best.

(I am at least consistent with my tie knots, though!)

Totally this. It's a teenager knot. Maybe an intern knot. But that's pushing it.

Then I respectfully submit you gents are either 1) not taking the time to tie it well or 2) using the wrong type of tie for it. You should not use a fat (wide) or thick material tie with a four in hand and expect it to come out well.

Perfect for lawyers!

Better call Joll!

 

[Zelig]

Then I respectfully submit you gents are either 1) not taking the time to tie it well or 2) using the wrong type of tie for it. You should not use a fat (wide) or thick material tie with a four in hand and expect it to come out well.

I'd have gone with 3) it only works if you have a handsome face to start with.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Half windsor and full windsor. I prefer half windsor.

 

[Quintillus]

I would say I know half a way to tie a tie. As in, I sorta know the Windsor, but wear ties sufficiently infrequently that I often have to wind up looking it up.

 

[Kennigit]

1. I think half windsor.

 

[gangleri2001]

Full windsor.

 

[Mise]

Half-windsor for normal tie occasions, Full-windsor for weddings, funerals, etc. I never bothered to learn more than that. And I probably can't do a full windsor knot from memory any more, I think i'd have to look it up.

 

[Arakhor]

I wasn't aware that the "schoolboy" knot even had a 'formal' name. It's just that knot that school-age children in the UK (and other places) all know how to do after many years of daily repetition.

 

[Traitorfish]

I don't know how to tie a tie. I used to, but I forgot. I should probably be more embarrassed by that than I am.