Whether you're just attempting to look like a quirky genius or if you actually are one, there is one fact that in my opinion, is inescapable: bow ties are cool.
Yes, people have described it as "like having a middle-finger protruding from your neck," or that it's difficult to take someone seriously when they're wearing one, but thats why it takes confidence to wear this classic neck ornament.
As exemplified by Winnie, one can indeed be taken very seriously whilst bowing their tie. It takes a certain kind of man to fully appreciate the bow tie: a unique mixture of eccentricity, boldness, and lack of concern for other's thoughts. As Warren St. John once wrote for The New York Times, "wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think."
My favorite part of a bow tie is the imperfection. Unlike the four-in-hand, a bow tie comes out looking distinctly different with each knot. Knowing how to tie a bow tie is a skill every man should know, I think.
Whether one is popping corn (like Mr. Redenbacher)
or saving the world (like the Doctor), the bow tie is the choice of those who want to make a certain statement with their neckwear.
As French poet Jean Cocteau put it, "Style is a simple way of saying complicated things" - and the bow tie does just that.
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