Ties,regimental,university,college, club.

**Rob Wright** · 20th August 09, 05:28 PM

Sadly my university does not have a tie design that I like, I really dislike the mascot on everything, I will keep looking but I will probably have to find a generic one. This one is actually quite nice:

http://www.buyyourties.com/Collegiat...006-p-394.html

Rob

**ChattanCat** · 20th August 09, 05:38 PM

Sorry to disapoint you Jock, but I hate, hate, hate ties. I would rather not wear a tie, ever. Why? Must be the rebellious scottish side of me...

**dfmacliam** · 20th August 09, 08:40 PM

Ok, I have been wanting a Regimental Tie... and thanks to Jock Scots subtle prodding... I pulled the trigger tonight... I ordered this US Marine Corps Regimental Tie..

Jock, I did look at the site you posted, but there was no US Marine Corps Ties.... If I am wearing a regimental tie... it will be for something I belong to.... Thanks for your posting this thread and helping me get something I will wear with pride...

DaNeil Wilson

**Sir William** · 21st August 09, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by peacekeeper83

Ok, I have been wanting a Regimental Tie... and thanks to Jock Scots subtle prodding... I pulled the trigger tonight... I ordered this US Marine Corps Regimental Tie..

DaNeil Wilson

I'm sure all the Marines posting here would like to know where you got the tie from. I need to replace the one I purchased over 20 years ago.

**ziggy** · 21st August 09, 05:18 AM

Generally speaking I don't enjoy wearing ties, but I mean for me the idea of wearing something that has a signifiacne or an inherent pride ont in it, basically trumps that idea.

As always, if you feel good in or about what you're wearing, that's the way to be! Now of course, I am not big on wearing things I have no lineage to.... for instance wearing a Marine Corps tie when I could never have been in the Marines you know?

**dfmacliam** · 21st August 09, 08:39 AM

It is a Brent Morgan XLong silk Marine Corps Regimental. I found it at http://www.wildties.com the same tie is found on many different sites, but for the value and reasonable shipping... I went this route.. SgtGrit has a version that is a dark blue background and the red and yellow stripes are a bit different, but I liked this version.

**The Guy in the Kilt at UC** · 21st August 09, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by JSFMACLJR

Most striped neck ties in the US have the stripes going from right to the left ( like this: \ In the UK, most regimental ties go from the left to the right ( / ). While many ties resemble regimental ties, they are not the same, due to the stripes.

So I walked over to the bookstore here on campus to look at the university ties. They follow your UK convention, going from the left to the right ( / ).

The school (University of Cincinnati) is in the US by the way.

**Jock Scot** · 21st August 09, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by The Guy in the Kilt at UC

So I walked over to the bookstore here on campus to look at the university ties. They follow your UK convention, going from the left to the right ( / ).

The school (University of Cincinnati) is in the US by the way.

As I have already pointed out the are exceptions to the rules/conventions(are there any),so I would not get too wound up with which way the stripes slope.

**Zardoz** · 21st August 09, 09:58 AM

I don't care for my university tie, it looks like a orange and white barber pole!

**O'Callaghan** · 21st August 09, 02:01 PM

Jock, I read your post and realised I didn't have a university tie, and have never had one, more than a quarter of a century after graduating, so I got online to the student's union shop at my old alma mater (although that's really only what an American would call it, even if it is latin) and bought one immediately! Now I just have to wait for it to come.

The photo online was so bad that I am still not sure what it looks like. I don't think I can ever recall seeing anyone wear one before either, so that doesn't help. However, the colours of the Loughborough University scarf are purple, yellow and grey, so those are the colours I would expect to see in the tie, if only the picture had been good enough to tell what the colours were!

Our founder, in 1915, was himself a graduate of Imperial College, London, and they added a narrower grey stripe into the centre of the Imperial College colours of purple with two yellow stripes to create the Loughborough scarf. I need a new scarf too, but they are out of stock until October. I am not even sure where my old one is.

Assuming the background colour of the university tie to be purple, I certainly don't have a kilt in a tartan with a purple background, or even any purple anywhere. There aren't even very many tartans with purple in them atall. Isle of Skye, I suppose, but I've never even been there. Now, if there was a tartan for the university ...