Quote Originally Posted by CMcG View Post
Jock, would you mind elaborating a bit on what you mean by a too-big knot being a "social give away?" ....clip.... I'm interested to know what social significance people might ascribe to knot size in the U.K. or anywhere else in the world?
There are so many social conventions that denote all sorts of social status , and I suspect it is almost impossible to explain them, there is the line something like if you have to ask... you are not part of it!

The UK is very full of these "markers" I suspect much more so that the States, but at the root of it , education and class will play a large part.
I'm not suggesting that at the heart of things it is a good or bad , but it is a very obvious and apparent part of our society.