Ties,regimental,university,college, club.

[Jock Scot]

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 ...

At first sight many university/club/school/regimental ties look as though they go with little. In fact, forget all this matching up nonsense and just wear the tie with everthing you have and you will find that you end up wearing it without a thought-------with everything!

[Cavebear58]

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[macwilkin]

I'm fascinated where all the organisations come from and get their names from? Other than freemasons, who seem to me to be a very different beast in the UK to the USA, (but that's only as an outsider) we don't really get anywhere near as many of these kinds of outfit. What's their history and why do you chaps have so many of them with such exotic sounding names?

Cheers, Graham.

The Society of King Charles the Martyr is a UK Anglican organisation with a North American branch. It is a devotional society to Charles I, martyred by Cromwell and the Roundheads.

The International Order of St. Vincent is also an Anglican devotional order for altar servers, sub-deacons, vergers, etc. But again, the British counterpart, The Guild of Servants of the Sanctuary has us beat in the name department. St. Vincent of Saragossa is the patron saint of acolytes and altar servers.

Finally, MOLLUS is a hereditary society for descendants of Union Army officers in the Civil War. It was started not long after Lincoln's murder, and many prominent Federal officers were members, including Scottish-American and Medal of Honor receipient, Arthur MacArthur. Much like the Grand Army of the Republic, once its original members began to pass to the final muster, the organisation allowed sons and grandsons of members to join.

If you look hard enough in the UK, you'll find some organisations with exotic-sounding names as well.

Regards,

Todd