School ties

My dad taught me how to do it before I started secondary school, I was the only one in my class that could do it

I was a windsor knot guy from my first day at secondary :P it's a skill for life.

Revel in all its beauty.



That said, I've yet to master the dimple. I swear man... it's near impossible.

EDIT: Apparently you can use a "dimple clip"

I'd never cheat on my tie like that.

no more peanuting

We had them introduced when I was in year 9 and we got a new head teacher. My school made us pay for them, even though my old tie was in perfect condition, and they had them made on Tue cheap so the clips gave people rashes and sent your shirt green :')

Great start for that head! The lower school at the sixth form I'm at are gonna get them with a new head next year (not the same man). Don't know whether to warn them or hope they put the consequences on fb since I'll have left! Then again it will look smarter than the polo shirt and jumper they wear now.

Exactly... so annoying for me since I was about the only one who had put effort into tying my tie that morning!



That's not so good were people wearing them properly before they introduced them?

Will the lower school get a blazer too? Polo and jumper isn't right for secondary school.

I was a windsor knot guy from my first day at secondary :P it's a skill for life.




It's true, it should be taught at the first day of school - could be a good ice breaker and a chance for the staff to highlight the importance of wearing uniform properly.

As everyone has said, it needs to start with the older pupils - and those who aren't prepared to comply should be issued with clip-on ties until they can prove they can tie a tie! (Additionally they should be tucking in their shirts, buttoning them up to the collar and not rolling up sleeves etc.)

Velcro? How does that work? That must look a bit cheap and nasty.

And I think the ideal situation would be not to have clip-on ties but on many occasions it's the only way to enforce proper attire

Haha, there's nothing wrong with buttoning up blazers!

It should be done up because that's how shirts are designed and that's how people will be expected to dress at work once they leave school

No, its not how shirts are designed. :P

Why do shirts have top buttons then?

Why does red preclude black in cards?

Its a silly question, shirts CAN and ARE worn casually, without the top button done up. It looks better, more natural, and no sane man has to tie a noose around his neck.

But their priorities may not be to look like nice young men/ women and instead to look rebellious and cool. I personally dont think it's that big a deal, who wasn't an idiot at 13?

I wasn't an idiot had 13-I had to wear a tie and wore it right up to the top unlike everyone in the whole school and behaved pretty well.