New York business and economics columnist Peter Coy writes today about neckties...just as I have several time in this website over the years, letting us know he owns 252.
Gotcha Peter. After 25 years on-air for TV News, I have many many more than you. I retired from TV in 2019, and now have my pick of any of my ties for the half-time state job I have, giving tours at The Alabama State Capitol.
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Here's part of what he wrote:
"Neckties have been out of fashion for so long that even articles about neckties being out of fashion have gone out of fashion. The pandemic made a bad situation worse. Soon the necktie will be worn only by “eccentrics, dictators or eccentric dictators,” Jonathan Miller wrote in The Spectator in 2021.
We necktie wearers are cruelly derided: “You know who always wears a necktie? Salesmen, attorneys and politicians — all professions based on trying to gain trust from people,” Stephen Johnson wrote last year in an article for Lifehacker titled, “Throw Your Neckties in the Damn Garbage Already.” He added, “Unless you use it to wipe your mouth, a necktie has no function.”
Read his entire column HERE if you have access to The Times.
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