The return of tie of the day

Cravatonotes

Further reading
Fink, Thomas and Yong, Mao
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie
London: Fourth Estate, 1999

Laver, James
The Book of Public School Old Boys, University, Navy, Army, Air Force & Club Ties
London : Seeley Service 1968
Derivation
The term cravatomancy is a neologism, a compound word derived from the French cravate, neck-cloth and the Greek μαντεἱα, divination, hence telling the future through ties. The ancients did not wear ties, as far as we know, so the term emerged when Sweder noticed the blue and yellow tie I wore on election day, 6 May 2010, and thought it foretold a Tory-Lib-Dem coalition.

17 December 2010

The return of tie of the day

In honour of the Research and Development party this evening, I put on a bow-tie.
I excluded bows from this summer's #tieoftheday project, but I have several, including some that were my father's and I am tempted to wear them, and, naturally, record the results.
Not everyone can carry them off. My father certainly could, and bow-ties are in any case often affected by doctors, fir infection control reasons. I think, at 55, I probably have sufficient gravitas to get away with one.

Biljan MM, Hart CA, Sunderland D, Manasse PR, Kingsland CR.
Multicentre randomised double bind crossover trial on contamination of conventional ties and
bow ties in routine obstetric and gynaecological practice.
BMJ. 1993 Dec 18-25;307(6919):1582-4.

Posted by Tom Roper on 17 December 2010 at 01:32 PM in Bow-ties | Permalink

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