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    Quote Originally Posted by McMurdo View Post
    If you are looking for a bow tie, they can be hard to come by
    Piece of advice on bow ties: either make your own or find a good seamstress/seamster in your town and give them your business. You just CAN'T find good bow ties in nifty patterns if you're not in a major metro area.

    Actually -- I do that for most special items of clothing. I like really WILD Hawaiian shirts. Picked out some fabric that'd make yer eyes bleed and had one made. I've found some really sweet Chinese brocade in the fabric store and now need to make some ties out of it. Can't buy 'em that wild.

    Go to the fabric store, and look for Simplicity patterns for men's evening accessories. They'll have patterns for bow ties and all kinds of things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Hippie View Post
    Piece of advice on bow ties: either make your own or find a good seamstress/seamster in your town and give them your business. You just CAN'T find good bow ties in nifty patterns if you're not in a major metro area.
    For bow ties I've had pretty good luck with Beau Ties Ltd.. Granted, I've only bought a couple formal ties, and I'm not precisely a connoisseur, but I haven't had any trouble with them. The nice thing is that you can order virtually all their bow ties in standard, jumbo, or slim depending on how large you like the bow.

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    And remember, with a bow tie, it's harder for your opponent to strangle you than with a four-in-hand tie...
    I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
    Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…

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    USA KIlts has a sale on argyles with waistcoats going on still.

    Rob

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    Quote Originally Posted by carlb View Post
    For bow ties I've had pretty good luck with Beau Ties Ltd..
    Just what I was about to say! And if you like carlb's approach, they will make a tie from your fabric. There are bargains on the "vintage values" page and elsewhere around the site. You'll find everything from a solid silk to an M.C. Escher design.
    Ken Sallenger - apprentice kiltmaker, journeyman curmudgeon,
    gainfully unemployed systems programmer

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    ive got a buchanan from jerry but its not a formal kilt for sure ... personally i cant stand the ancient buchanan if i got a tank in buchanan id get the old sett weathered but thats just me. either way glad to see another of us getting a goodun
    Reverend Chevalier Christopher Adam Dow II KStI

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    Quote Originally Posted by fluter View Post
    There are bargains on the "vintage values" page and elsewhere around the site. You'll find everything from a solid silk to an M.C. Escher design.
    Certainly an option! Thanks for the link, Fluter.

    I looked over my pattern stash last night and found two packets of accessories patterns which include cummerbunds, sashes, straight ties and bow ties:

    McCall's 2447
    Vogue 7104

    Quote Originally Posted by Ted Crocker
    And remember, with a bow tie, it's harder for your opponent to strangle you than with a four-in-hand tie...
    Heh. I always tell my male journalism students that if they're covering the court beat, to wear a clip-on tie. Learned that lesson the hard way, I did.

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    Dr. Charles A. Hays
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