Graham...you'll look fine in whatever you choose to wear.

As for ties...I'm with Dread, I hate 'em! The last job that required me to wear one was back in 1984. Since then I've had blue-collar type jobs where a t-shirt and blue jeans were acceptable. I don't even wear a tie at any semi-formal events, and I'm to poor to be invited to formal ones. LOL

When I got hired at Calgary Transit in April we were told that the training uniform required us to wear a tie. Bleh! I hated the thought of being forced into tie-wearing as a daily event again. However, we were also told that once we passed the training program (21 days), we didn't have to wear the tie with our uniform if we didn't want to! Woohoo! Let the bells ring out and the banners fly!!