It is my great pleasure to present my new Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) regimental tie! The story of how it came into my possession is a bit convoluted, so bear with me. Follow this thread and you might qualify to participate in an ABF tie chain...

In the original Review my Attire thread, Tiny posted an outfit and asked for advice from the rabble. One of the primary criticisms of his style was that it was too "matchy."

Jock Scot posted a response thread called Review my Attire 2 in which he exemplified the epitome of THCD daywear while remaining humble enough to stick his neck out for comments. Jock also wrote "The real point of this thread was to provoke thought and give, some of you, the confidence to perhaps be a little more 'adventurous', or perhaps at least see that there are acceptable alternatives outside your own Non Scots comfort zone."

JSFMACLJR anteed up with Review my Attire 3 and followed Jock in provoking thought about mixing patterns and colours in THCD.

Then Jock Scot came up with a clever idea. He held a small contest for matchy kilt wearers to receive a regimental tie if they agreed to use it in putting together an unmatchy daywear outfit, post pics, and document their experience.

I entered but KFCarter won; his resulting thread is to be found in Review my Attire 4. Someone posted there that perhaps the ABF tie should be turned into a chain. Jock and KFCarter agreed that would be good fun, so they sent me the next ties for being sporting in my loss of the original contest. Thanks to them both for their generosity in assisting me to participate; I'm a student and wouldn't otherwise have had the funding

With the history done, my next post will be about the tie itself and the proposed chain. After that, I'll get on to the pics...