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Q: I am required to wear a tie at work at all times. The other day, a coworker pointed out that I was tying it all wrong. I didn’t have a dimple, and he acted as if I had committed murder. I thought it was an otherwise beautiful knot. That brought up the question, are tie dimples essential to looking sharp?
A: Tie dimples, those little creases just below the knot, are overrated. We live in an age of anal-retentive tie tying, hence the current rage for the Windsor knot. Overattentive dressers like its symmetry and probably its tendency to form a vulval dimple. There’s something unmasculine about looking like you have obsessively tied and retied your tie. Real elegance involves impeccable taste and a peccable sense of nonchalance.
October 2004
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