[All or Nothing]

(08-24-2012 02:04 AM)basilransom Wrote:  

The adjectives you want: stunning, striking, sexy, edgy, arresting, bold, devilish, rakish, jaunty, ballsy, cocky, enigmatic, exotic, stylish. It should generate more questions than answers. Genteel doesn't cut it.

Since I use GQ/Styleforums for pretty much all of my style advice, I did of quick search of "GQ bow ties". A few nice article came up about bowties, but here's the one that struck me: http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/access.../bow-ties. I'll have to say is Glenn O'Brien is right, bow ties were and still are stylish. Shit, Frank Sinatra used to rock 'em. I wonder how many of those adjectives he fits (read: all of them).



A couple more:
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbi...8f5a86c0d9
http://mariehegler.files.wordpress.com/2...inatra.jpg

I think with bow ties, is that they are harder to pull off. For one, I feel that a nice slim tie can make you look good, but for a bow tie, YOU have to make it look good. You gotta bring a level of swagger and confidence to the table when wearing a bow tie, and your look has to bring it too.

Since my level of experience with wearing bow ties is zero, here's a link to a lookbook for bow ties: http://lookbook.nu/looks?q=bowtie#!gender/guys. I'm sure looking at the many different ways a bow tie can be worn will help you find the kind of way you want to wear it.

In terms of buying bow ties and the best deals, I don't really know where to look. I know http://www.thetiebar.com/ has tons of options for relatively inexpensive bow ties, and plenty of stylish options to choose from.