National Tie Month

That’s right, the tie is of such importance that it gets an entire month dedicated to it, unlike the poor sock which is only commemorated in No Socks Day for the wonder that is not wearing them. But why is the tie so important, and how did it come to mean power and distinction? Well, it all starts back in the 1600’s during the Croatian war, when the mercenaries cravat’s caught the Parisian attention, and became integrated into their fashion culture.

The cravat stuck around as an item of distinction, until they underwent a bit of a revolution and became the Steinkirk. The cravat had become so important that one wouldn’t think of going anywhere, not even to battle, without wearing one. So it was that the princes involved in the Battle of Steinkirk hurriedly put on their cravats and looped them through a button-hole. A little imagination can reveal the origins of the modern neck-tie in this simple adaptation.

The modern tie made its appearance in the late 1800’s, sometime after the ascot was created. In those hundreds of years the tie and its ancestors had been worn by the powerful, the influential, and thus it became associated with serious men on serious business.

So it is that professors, CEO’s, the serious job-seeker (even Jesse Pinkman in his short dance with legitimacy) all turn to one item when they want to show they’re up-standing men on upstanding business.

National Tie Month was foudned to pay tribute to this fascinating piece of neckwear that has been slowly phased out in recent decades!