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10月30日 Deadly Ties Happy Halloween! Surely, these ties will put you into the mood for tomorrow's holiday and the days that follow...
" Obvious, isn't it? Halloween and All Saints Day and All Souls Day, the day(s) of the dead... what a great time to wear ties with designs by J. Garcia, of the Grateful Dead. Of course... I've never yet worn a J. Garcia tie, although by now I have about a dozen of them. So, there will be more... For now, these fanciful ties bear rather fanciful names: for 10-31, "Tree Trunk (Collection Seven);" 11-1, "Feeding in the Light (Collection Fifteen);" 11-2, "Poet Absorbs the War (Collection Six);" and 11-5, "Nude (Collection Twenty-Four)." All of them are from Stonehenge, made of silk, either in the US, Korea, or China. Just to keep up with things: I had planned to wear a necktie on Sunday, but, although I was visiting my mother, she did not feel like going to church. As usual, after visiting her, I took off Monday (tie-less), so today (10-30), I wore the tie that had been designated for Sunday.
Copyright © 2007 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved 10月24日 Autumnal Botanicals - 5 I just checked. It's not Friday the 13th. Last night, neither new nor old pictures showed up on the blogsite. Tonight, I got to the last word of the entry, and suddenly Internet Explorer had to close, which meant I lost the whole entry. Let's try again.
Today, I wore the burgundy tie, below left (Corporate Casual by Van Heusen, silk, US), and tomorrow, I'll wear a refreshing blue floral (Isaco Designs, silk, US):
Friday, I'll wear the downright weird gray and white floral, below left (Boss | Hugo Boss, silk, Italy), more wintery than autumnal, but this foursome (and this series) finishes up with the warm tones of the necktie that I'll wear Sunday when, visiting my mother, I'll go to church.
This past weekend, we had our very special annual car show here in Lakeland, so special that last year, I wore a rare Saturday necktie. This year, there was a range of music, from a classical string trio to barbershop quartets, from a bagpipe to a didgeridoo. Our Saturday farmers market was going on, so I treated myself to a new orchid. The best treat of all was seeing my lovely town, Lakeland, especially lovely on a beautiful October afternoon.
Copyright © 2007 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved 10月18日 Autumnal Botanicals - 4This is the second time I've tried to make this entry. The first time, it crashed, so here goes nothing... Today, I wore a warmly autumnal bit of silk (Enrico Coveri, silk, handmade in Italy), and tomorrow, there will be more leaves (Christian Dior | Monsieur, Italian silk, made in US).
Next week, I'm going for the gold, with gold metallic accents on both ties. First, there are fanciful golden leaves on a richly brocaded burgundy (AKM, Italian silk, made in US). Then, this foursome finishes with a rich blue - not a color one would expect in a fall festival - with a very tight brocade and golden leaves woven into the fabric (Renato Balestra, silk, Italy).
Copyright © 2007 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved 10月10日 Autumnal Botanicals - 3So far, we've celebrated autumn with fruit and leaves, pretty ho-hum stuff. I did similar themes last year about this time. Now, I'm going to do something that might seem nutty (although I don't have many neckties with nuts), and that is, propose a quartet of floral ties for the fall celebration. As I've shown, here in central Florida, fall is not very traditional. (So pardon the interruption of the fall festival, while I go water the orchids.)
It's appropriate, I suppose, to begin with the necktie for Friday the 12th, an almost creamy silk with flowers woven in suitably autumnal colors. It's one of those ties that almost appeal to the sense of taste. I'm resisting the temptation to lick this Tropicals by Tango tie (Korea, silk). What could be more appropriate for October than the next tie with its orange background? Its label, "Gap Premium | Est. 1969 | Authentic Neckwear" raises the question, what is an inauthentic necktie (US, silk)?
This foursome continues with outright earthtone botanicals (Deco Mode, US, silk). Finally, there is a magnificent mishmosh that is floral, earthy, autumnal - and festive - all on one great cotton tie (Tango by Max Raab, US). The celebration is over; go in peace. Too bad that we cannot have a recessional from today's birthday boy Thelonious Monk. But that would require another celebration, and after that last tie, I'm a little weak in the knees.
Copyright © 2007 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved 10月7日 Autumnal Botanicals - 2 I said recently that here in central Florida, autumn is just something we all agree on, more by looking at the calendar than by looking outside. I submit the above photos, which I took Monday, the 5th, when I took a "mental health day," in my case to see whether I had any mental health left. (You can see the photos in a more leisurely format here.) Fruit and flowers, lots of greenery... and another sign of autumn, most welcome, is the return of neckties to Burl Veneer's neck, as well as his return to his necktie blog. (Happy birthday, Mr. V.!)
I was off Friday, so the necktie for the 5th will be worn tomorrow (8th). I wore a tie today, to go to a Thai (not tie) food festival at a nearby Theravada monastery, the first of the leafy ties below, because its colors and design seemed more appropriate for a Thai festival than the strawberry tie. So, let's see what I am wearing for the leafy segment of my autumnal botanicals.
Today, I wore a tie with a design of rather tropical colors, vibrant, suggestive of some of the colors I saw at the Thai festival. This Oleg Cassini tie is made of polyester from the US, assembled in the Domenican Republic. I ended up happy to be wearing a polyester tie, since I was caught in the rain, and I've had a good soaking almost destroy a slk tie. The other leaves up there are on a Bugle Boy tie (the first and only so far, I think), material not identified.
Vintage ties just feel autumnal to me, old, perhaps musty, and showing some hearty autumnal colors. I need to say, enjoy the vintage ties here while you can, because I have really gotten tired of tying and wearing them. The necktie (above) for the 10th is a very typical vintage tie, with its "masculine" colors and its botanical pattern of leaves and nuts rather than flowers. This one has had some surgery on it at some point, so it will be even more difficult to tie. (Arco Cravats) This fall foursome closes with an archetypically burgundy tie, with - I guess- leaves, although as I look at them more and more, I wonder if they might be seedpods of some sort? This Halston tie was made in the US of Italian silk. Copyright © 2007 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved 10月1日 Autumnal Botanicals - 1 Down here in central Florida, fall or autumn is more a cultural construct than a meterological reality. The palms don't drop their leaves in October, nor do the manatees swim south for the winter. But, something there is that likes a change of seasons. As I've mentioned before - and so has my fellow tie guy Will - autumn leaves were quite a popular theme on older neckties: leaves, not flowers, earthy browns and yellows, not wimpy pastels... ties for real men. So, I'm going to stretch the theme a little to cover a range of botanicals for some October weeks.
I'm beginning with fruit. The end of the growing season, the harvests. But, again, this is Florida, so I have one tie with tropical fruits and another with strawberries, which, around here are an early spring treat celebrated at the Florida Strawberry Festival. Not to worry: I have another strawberry-themed tie for then. So, hold the whipped cream, and let's dig in...
The sequence begins with a well structured cotton tie (Structure, US), with crisply printed apples, followed by a tropical fruitasia in rather autumnal tones on a tie that, judging from its backside, seems to have had some sort of re-structuring (Dongali, no identification of material or origin).
There's nothing particularly autumnal about either cherries or strawberries, but they can contribute to a celebration of an imagined harvest. The cherries grace a "Hunting Horn Classics | silk" tie. The strawberries with leaves and flowers are lusciously printed on a great cotton "Tango by Max Raab | US" necktie. I wish I had kept a record of when and where I purchased each tie. Although I cannot recall when I bought this tie, I do remember the experience vividly. There was a long line of customers ahead of me, each pushing a shopping cart full of treasures. I had just this single tie. When I got to the cash register, the cashier said, "You must really like strawberries." I replied, "No, but I love great ties." Copyright © 2007 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved |
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