Am I The Only Adult In The Western World Who Can't Tie A Tie?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: Am I The Only Adult In The Western World Who Can't Tie A Tie?

If anyone had to see my room, they'd notice on the back of my door is a tie rack with about 30 completely tied and knotted ties.

I've tried for about the last three years to tie a tie properly and I just can't do it.

I'm pretty sure I have a learning disability in this regard.

Am I the only one. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

[SarahB]

1. I can tie a tie

:7

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. and you don't even have to

that makes me feel like such a dumb dumb :(

[SarahB]

5. Yes I do

I have 3 boys

[Sandpiper]

11. What type of knot do you use

Double Windsor, Half Windsor, or Four in Hand?

A Double Windsor is a pain in the ass, the other two are pretty simple.

[SarahB]

22. Half Windsor

(I think)

[arcane1]

17. welcome "back" to DU!

(I'm a little late in saying that... been on eof those weeks!)


I've had to wear a tie maybe 20 times in my life, so I've only kept the most vague memory of how to do it. I'm like Magic Rat, I'll tie that sucker up and leave it there year-round! :)



ties suck anyway... can I get an AMEN???

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Amen, brother

Ties suck. The most worthless piece of men's clothing ever devised.

[arcane1]

21. doubly worthless due to their mandatory nature

it's amazing how a grown man can sputter and fume over whether or not I have a piece of cloth tied around my neck...

see, without the tied cloth, I'm not a professional. I can royally SUCK at my job, but if I have the fabric, I'm in for life

:eyes:

[Art_from_Ark]

27. For sure, clothes don't always make the man

Just look at bu$h-- always immaculately dressed, including tie, but completely vapid upstairs, where it counts-- the textbook example of an empty suit!

[arcane1]

28. exactly...

clothes only make the man if the man has nothing else with which to make himself a man

[SarahB]

23. Thanks Arcane

:hi:

[arcane1]

24. better late than never

I'm a little slow this month :)

:hi:

[Droopy]

2. I can't tie one and hopefully I'll never have a reason to learn.

[Padraig18]

4. I always have to tie Tony's for him.

Something about the mechanics of a windsor knot turns my otherwise quite intelligent mate into a gibbering idiot with 4 thumbs... :P

[Sandpiper]

6. A tie-tying tip

This applies to tying the four in hand knot (the easiest of the three).

The Sack Rule:

When tying a four in hand, bring the point of the fat end of the tie down to the base of your sack, and the finished product will be the perfect length every time. :)

[Another Bill C.]

7. I went to a parochial school.

We had to wear a tie every day. I learned how to tie one in the first grade. The Windsor knot was my favorite because it was even on both sides. I don't wear a tie any more except for special funerals.

[Blue-Jay]

8. I can't do a Windsor.

but I prefer a skinnier knot anyhow.

[teach1st]

9. Tie confessions

Here I am, a fifty-year-old man who can't knot a tie. Pathetic! I'm a college graduate, for goodness sake. I only wear a tie maybe twice a year (I'd wear one more if I knew how to knot it), so it ain't so bad. My excuse: In my formative years my father never got to teach me to knot a tie, since I was such a hippie.

Worse, I think, is my pitiful inability to cboose a tie that's even close to the current style or that goes with my shabby wardrobe.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. i cant either

[Dogmudgeon]

12. You suck, dude

And I bet you throw a baseball like a girl, too.

Nyah nyah!

:evilgrin:

--bkl

[DemBones DemBones]

13. I'm sure my husband would teach me if I needed to know how to

and I'd probably have a hard time learning if my experiences tying my Girl Scout kerchief were any indication! I also could never do a decent job tying a sash behind my back -- and when I was a kid, girls' dresses always had sashes, which boys were forever untying! Maybe we lack the "tying" gene, or, more likely, we either weren't taught at the right age or weren't taught in a way we understood.

:shrug:

I could, however, make you a tie -- I could sew one from fabric or weave one from yarn. And I could embroider it, too. ;-)

[Endangered Specie]

14. Are you a leftie??

if so... that makes tieing anything difficult bc its all mirror-reversed.

But still... pratice until you get it.

on edit: start with the Windsor, its one of the easier ones, or at least, its the only one that looks decent on me.

Boo to skinny ties and skinny knots, not on a guy my size

[bigwillq]

15. Can't tie them

Luckily I don't have a job that requires me to wear one. Only have to wear them on special ocassions and then my dad or my man would help me.

[terrya]

16. Carson on "Quuer Eye for the Straight Guy" has shown how to tie a tie...

Several times...and I still don't know how to do it.

I've never gotten the hang of it. Thank goodness I work at a job where a tie isn't necessary.

Terry

[cally]

18. I can tie one

My Dad taught me. Why, I don't know. :shrug:

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. You're an adult?

:P

[arwalden]

38. Just What I Was Thinking Too

[talkingrain]

25. Tie a tie

<http://www.tie-a-tie.net/>

[President_G_W_Bush]

26. Look at me in my sig picture

I'm having trouble, too, and it's a clip-on.

[NewHampster]

29. a site for real tie dummys

http://www.scoutdb.org/h2tat/

[wyldwolf]

30. have you seen those new "pre-tied" ties?

You put them over your head down to your neck and they zip up!

Beats the hell out of all the ties I have that I keep tied!

[Sentath]

36. Cool, those are back again?

I had a couple in the '80s

Nice slim knot, secure, and symmetrical even ( ;

{rlg}

[holeinboatoutatsea]

31. why didn't you ask me before embarrassing yourself!

http://www.tieguide.com/overview.htm

all answers may be found on the great god google!!!!!

and I never left my chair!

[ironflange]

32. Go to this site!

Look up the Pratt Knot-Shelby Knot. That's the one I use on the rare occasions I wear a tie, and it'e absolutely idiot-proof. Makes a great looking knot with little effort.

[scottcsmith]

33. I never learned

Well, I should say I never learned how to do it properly. I cannot tie one today, I'm so pathetic I have to have my wife tie it for me. I'd be like the poster in that I'd have a collection of tied ties if I had to wear them.

I can't tie a bow tie, either.

[camero]

34. I've lost the skill

I haven't worn a tie in almost 10 years.

[pmbryant]

35. I get rusty, but still remember how

For my entire life, I've worn ties very infrequently: only once or twice per year. Somehow, though, I still remember how to do it. It does take a few times to get it to look right, though. :-)

--Peter

[GOPisEvil]

37. I have to tie one 4 days a week!

x( Needless to say I've gotten good at it.