new source of striped ties

[FossilHunter]

I like the concept. And I like that they offer 'skinny' versions as well.

The UK and USA versions are nice. I wish they had done something different on the Texas version, though. It's a bit loud, and doesn't have anything to make it obvious that it's specific to Texas.

I'd be interested in these if they weren't 61" long. I guess they only plan on selling ties to tall dudes.

“Lone star” I guess?

I like the North Carolina one. It’d be appropriate as my Macdonald ancestors emigrated there.

The one that was really odd to me was the New Zealand one as it uses the silver fern symbol (which is an unofficial flag I think) rather than the official one that is similar to Australia’s. Looks like an all blacks fan tie to me.

The length is weird. They mention that they are longer for tall men but it seems that average would make more sense. You might be able to contact them and ask for a shorter tie.

[Tobus]

“Lone star” I guess?

Yes, obviously the star is for our Lone Star State status (and matches our flag). My point was that the casual observer would probably just see this as a US flag tie, and not necessarily connect it to Texas specifically. It's an ongoing conundrum with any Texas-related merchandise. It either needs to look recognisably like the Texas flag (only one star, one red stripe, one white stripe), or have some other identifier for Texas. Otherwise it just looks like the usual US flag stuff.

Of course, I do have a tie tack in the shape of Texas, so maybe that would set it off.

[FossilHunter]

Yes, obviously the star is for our Lone Star State status (and matches our flag). My point was that the casual observer would probably just see this as a US flag tie, and not necessarily connect it to Texas specifically. It's an ongoing conundrum with any Texas-related merchandise. It either needs to look recognisably like the Texas flag (only one star, one red stripe, one white stripe), or have some other identifier for Texas. Otherwise it just looks like the usual US flag stuff.

Of course, I do have a tie tack in the shape of Texas, so maybe that would set it off.

The California one is a little weird too with all the blue. There isn’t actually any blue on our flag. But that could just be an artistic decision to avoid having it be mostly white, which I don’t think would have looked looked very good.

[Baeau]

Yes, obviously the star is for our Lone Star State status (and matches our flag). My point was that the casual observer would probably just see this as a US flag tie, and not necessarily connect it to Texas specifically. It's an ongoing conundrum with any Texas-related merchandise. It either needs to look recognisably like the Texas flag (only one star, one red stripe, one white stripe), or have some other identifier for Texas. Otherwise it just looks like the usual US flag stuff.

Of course, I do have a tie tack in the shape of Texas, so maybe that would set it off.

The first thing I thought of was an election, not Texas. Perhaps it needed a larger star? Example, from one of Texas best: