tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205089112012-01-29T19:01:20.517-08:00Images of vintage neckties from Will's collection along with comments about the ties.Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.comBlogger1751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-17909991805878603932012-01-29T18:55:00.000-08:002012-01-29T19:01:20.533-08:00

Here's a gorgeous 1940's exemplar, replete with a beautiful brocade, woven into the fabric. The brocade pattern is more visible on the secondary portions of the tie, the small end, and the other part that is folded back.The pattern on the tie itself could be described as a combination of circles and rings against a rich brick brown color with sparse white polka dots.The tie has no labels to

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It's hard to believe I last posted a new tie back in September. I've been way too busy during the Christmas season to even think about scanning and posting any ties, but September? That's many moons ago. Oh well. We do what we can.Here's another fairly ordinary workaday tie from the forties. Solid navy blue background with red diamonds in a diamond shaped pattern, plus more diamonds outlined in

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Here's a fairly ordinary forties era tie from my collection. 100% silk fabric (according to a label), but other than that, not very fancy or special. Why do I say that? Because the fabric is fairly thin, and has no brocade patterns woven into it. This was probably a fairly inexpensive tie in its day.The tie has two labels, which in this case (somewhat unusually) are sewn into the back of the

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Here's a nice tie that may have originally been a bit wider than it is now. When you look at the point of the large end, you can see how off-center it is. And if you could see the back side, you'd notice that it is folded almost all the way across the entire back side at the base. I'm fairly sure that someone refolded it, and ironed in new creases at some point. Probably in the early fifties, as

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Here's a nice abstract design in shades of brown, white, and rusty red. The red doesn't show very clearly in the scan. The fabric has a brocade pattern with geometric shapes. Again, the brocade isn't very visible in the scan. The tie has two labels, shown in the scan. The seller's label reads: Kelleher & Browne 716 Market St. San Francisco, Calif. The maker's label reads: Creveling of

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This is awful! Terrible! Shameful! The last time I blogged a tie was back in November, 2010, and the last time before that, and the last time I regularly blogged several ties was in September. I'm sure that anyone who ever paid attention to this blog (and there were never that many to begin with, this being a topic of fairly limited interest), thought it was dead, dead and gone, dead and

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It's been way too long since I last posted a tie. It's hard to believe it's been two months! And this may well be the last tie I have time to post until 2011. It's a busy time of year, and a busy life that I seem to lead.This is a relatively recent acquisition. It's a nice example of an originally inexpensive (in all probability) forties tie, with a pattern that wouldn't particularly stand out

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In honor of the autumnal equinox marking the beginning of fall this past weekend, and in remembrance of my Uncle George, recently deceased, to whom this tie belonged, I present these beautiful autumn leaves.George was my mother's oldest brother, a WWII veteran, and an honorable man, beloved by those who knew him. His son, my cousin, did me the honor of letting me select ties for my collection

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"Scrolled Pattern" is the name I've given this tie, for lack of a better. The pattern features a series of light colored dots, each centered within a square outlined in the same color, each square sitting sideways, balancing, so to speak, on one of its points.This design, featuring a background color of a rich brick-red color, is set off by a series of scroll-like patterns down each side, drawn

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I can't believe it's been over a month since I last posted a tie. I was on vacation for a couple of those weekends, and out of town on another as well, so in between there just wasn't any available time for the leisure activity of blogging. Well, finally, I'm back.Here's a nice 40's era tie, with a typical geometric design in shades of maroon and gray.I sent this tie to the dry cleaners after I

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Here's another nice forties tie. Nothing fancy, no brocaded fabric, but a rather striking desing of red and white concentric circles, and red and white stair steps alternating against a dark navy blue background.The tie has two labels, visible in the scan. The first reads: Lee SemonMen's Wear-'That's All'The second reads: FasionCraftCravatsand has the initials SN enclosed in a diamond shaped box

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I think this is the first time I've put up ties two weeks in a row for quite some time! A major accomplishment for me, these days.This is a nice examplar of fifties design. Are they really feathers? They could be leaves I suppose. The colors are shades of brown, red, and tan.The background is solid brown, with no brocade. So it's not a fancy tie, just covered with those fanciful feathers.

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Here's another vintage 40's-era tie, a relatively recent acquisition. How to describe it?The basic background color is a kind of mauve (is that a shade of purplish gray, or a shade of grayish purple?). Yellow-gold colored roughtly v-shaped stripes go marching up the tie, and at the center of each, a round red disc shaped object, with a smaller yellow center circle, are rising out of the v.These

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OK, we're back to forties era ties. No more thirties, at least for now. This is quite a gorgeous example. I call it "red and gold corners" because the stripes all turn a corner near the bottom of the tie.On top of this pattern are scattered pieces of smaller boxes (smaller than the size of box implied by the one corner that is visible), with scalloped edges.This tie has a lovely brocade woven

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Blobs, that's not a very attractive name for this tie's design, but it's the best I could come up with. I mean, this tie is covered with blobs on several levels. There are big red and maroon blobs all over the tie, and those blobs are filled with smaller blobs.Blob is an interesting word. Change one letter, and you've got blog, which is the medium in which I'm writing. According to one definition

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Here are a matched pair of slightly plainer patterned thirties era ties. And what is especially unique about these is that one of them at least, the purplish one, has apparently never been worn, since it still has the original packaging label on it.The other one is frankly in better condition, however. The purple one appears to be faded, most likely from exposure to sunlight. You can see that

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When I saved this scanned image to my computer disk, I named it "Blobby Red Stripes" but now that I'm posting it, "Jewel Toned" sounds so much classier, don't you think?The tie is quite opulent in appearance, but restrained. That is, it appears ordinary and somewhat monochromatic, almost dull, from a distance. It's only when you see it up close that you can appreciate it's gem-like qualities.In

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When I started typing the title for this post, I inadvertently typed "blogs" instead of "blobs." Kind of a Freudian slip, I suppose, though don't ask me what it means.This is another gorgeous tie from the thirties. Red and blue blobs, vaguely amoeba shaped, float about on a background of—guess what color? Maroon, of course. With silvery sparkles imbedded throughout.I'll have to count up one of

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Here is another 30's era tie. What I like about these is the opulent effect of the bright and glossy pattern woven directly into the fabric. Even when the colors are fairly conservative, as in this example, the sheen of the fabric, and the almost embossed look of the pattern create an impression that I can only describe as opulent, rich.This one is basic brown, designed to go with any brown suit,

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Here's another thirties beauty. Maroon is the primary background color, like so many others. I'm not sure if maroon was really a favorite color for men's ties in that era, or if it's merely a coincidence that so many of the thirties ties I have managed to collect are basically maroon.This one has lightning-edged blotches of red and green imbedded in silver all over the tie. Like so many of my

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I described last week's tie as possibly transititional between the thirties and the forties. So I decided to continue with some additional thirties era ties that I have acquired since last posting any thirties ties.This one I'm calling "Circles of Grapes" because it looks like clusters of grapes encircled by circular patterns. The basic color scheme is maroon, which seems to have been a favorite

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Well, it's certainly about time that I got started posting ties again. One of the problems I've had is that my regular computer crashed a few months ago, and I still haven't gotten everything rebuilt back to the way it was. For example, my all-in-one printer, scanner, copier had never been installed. I couldn't find the CD-ROM, so I had to go to the Brother printer support web site, and download

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Here's an unusually patterned tie! Scroll-like patterns separate circles with differently colored dots at the center of them. Some of the circles are yellow with green dots, some red with yellow dots, and some green with red dots.I believe this to be a forties era tie, primarily because of the fabric, which is the smooth, thin, acetate or silk, so typical of that period. The design is almost op

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Another recent eBay acquisition, this beauty has a background that is somewhere between burgundy and brown, with golden yellow teardrop shapes splattered about, together with some teardrops that are lighter in color, lined with the background to create a patterned effect.I wish you could see the brocade in this tie, but it really didn't come through in the scan at all. Parts of it are elaborate

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I know, I know, it's been almost three months since I've posted a tie here. I can hardly believe it myself. I wouldn't blame any of you who monitored this blog for thinking it was dead, or that maybe I was!No, I'm still here, and I have a bunch of new ties that need to be posted. My wife gave me half a dozen or more great examples for my birthday last month, plus I've scored several great hauls

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Here is a recent acquisition. It came in another batch of cheap ties on eBay. Sometimes you really do get what you pay for! I have this search set up that only alerts me if a vintage tie listing for $10.00 or less is within 48 hours of expiring, and with no bids. In other words, I'm the inveterate bargain hunter!The ties that came in this particular batch are nice enough, but in relatively poor

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Strawberry season is already past, more or less, here in Western Washington, although there should be another season for the late berries. We were on vacation most of that time, as I recall.Anyway, here's a tie that appears to depict strawberries, even though they're a fairly unusual blue color. And some of them are on top of leaves, although they don't look exactly like strawberry leaves to

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I know, I know. It's been three weeks since I last posted a vintage tie here. Mea culpa. We were on vacation the first two weeks, and then the next week we were trying to catch up from having been gone so much. There often just aren't enough hours in the day or the week to go around.But I'm back. And I hope you enjoy this tie. It's a classic forties era design, quite colorful, with a lively

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In honor of Father's Day, I present this tie, the last of the ties (to be posted here) that belonged to my Dad. When I first became interested in vintage ties, back when I was still in high school, I went to my Dad and asked him if he had any old ties. Sure enough, he had a nice little collection of ties from the forties, some of them quite splendid, indeed.Unfortunately, some of them were in the

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Last week's post featured pheasants in the brocade. This tie unfortunately has no brocade, but it also features birds, this time right on the tie, not hidden in the background.What kind of birds they are, I'm not exactly sure, not being an expert birder or anything. But they look like fairly common ordinary type birds. At first glance, I thought they might be swallows, and the wing positions

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Now here's an interesting tie. Also a relatively recent eBay acquisition. On the surface, what you see is a kind of shimmering stripes of orangey brown and tan, fading into one another, and angled from left to right at about a 45 degree angle.Right about midway up the tie (it looks higher on the scan, due to the limited range of the scanner, which can only handle 8 1/2 by 11 inch images), is a

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Here's another recent eBay acquisition. It's a nice example of forties color, style and design. It's not quite in the first rank so far as opulence goes, without any background brocade pattern woven into the fabric, but the fabric itself is shiny and glossy, as typical of so many forties ties.The tie seems to depict a brown sky full of stylized brown and tan clouds. The entire tie has an orangy

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Isn't this a a gorgeous beaut of a tie! I call it "A Green Dream." It's maybe a bit TOO flamboyant, but I like it a lot. I have to tell you its story (the limited part I know):I found this tie languishing in a junk store--oops, make that a second-hand store, located right next to the discount mall in Seaside, Oregon. It's a favorite place for us to stop and poke around whenever we're passing

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Here is another very nice forties vintage tie, which came from another eBay purchase. In this case, two ties were bought in a batch. I don't recall the price, and am too busy (or lazy) to look it up just now, but I am fairly sure it was more than I paid for the last four.The basic pattern revolves around some vaguely floral patterns that I'm calling rosettes for lack of a better term. It's

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I guess those are grapes. Not sure what else they could be. However, the flowers are more grape colored than the grapes themselves, which are more of a silver gray color than seems natural. Oh well, at least the leaves are green. And the flowers ARE a fairly spectacular shade of blue. Blue IS my favorite color, after all.This is the last of the four ties I got on eBay a few weeks back, for $2.00

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This tie is SO ordinary, so plain, so basic blue, that I decided to show you the backside, rather than the front, in order to demonstrate a point about the construction of some older ties.The tie is made of wool, virgin wool, to be sure, but wool all the same. It has no pattern, no design, nothing hand painted or otherwise imprinted on it. Certainly no brocade woven into the fabric of the fabric

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Easter is past, from the standpoint of a church musician. All of those extra services (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday) and Holy Week recitals (two of those), choir rehearsals, extra anthems (3 for Easter Sunday), and all the extra practicing that went along with it. All done and over with for another year. Phew!So I managed to find time to scan and blog a tie this afternoon. Last week? Not a chance

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Where does the time go? Last Sunday again found me without enough time in the day to scan and post a tie. And I'm almost there today. Just barely squeezing this in between chores and tonight's Masterpiece showing of the first episode of Little Dorrit.Here is an unusual--but spectacular in its own way--tie! Just plain red, right? Wrong! There is no printed or painted design or image on the tie.

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This tie's color scheme reminds me of the one I posted for Valentine's Day a couple of postings ago. That one was red and burgundy, while this one is red and brown, but they create a similar effect, especially since both have contrasting lighter sections. This one has squares filled with smaller squares, which sort of resemble windows on a building, such as on the side of a skyscraper. The one

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This tie looks nicer in the scan than it does in real life, I think. It's my opinion that this was probably a pretty inexpensive tie in its day, and it's probably lucky that it survived this long.Why do I think it was a cheap tie? Mainly because the fabric is not high quality, no brocade, not even a rich sheen or shine like many of the silk or rayon ties typically have. The fabric has also lost

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This is the best I could do for Valentine's Day this year. I only own one vintage tie that relates to this occasion, and I posted it already last year, so you'll have to go back and revisit it, if you want to see a vintage tie with hearts.So this year, I just hunted over my rack of red ties until I found one that I hadn't already posted, which was difficult, as there are only a few left unscanned

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The name of this design, printed on the small end of the tie, tells you what it's all about. "Bright as a New Penny," it reads. So the bright yellow coin-shaped circles are obviously intended to represent the bright and shiny new penny, with the other circular objects looking like less shiny pennies, or just spin-offs from the original bright and shiny one.Meanwhile, similarly gold-colored lines

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This tie reminds me of all my maroon 30's era tie blog entries I linked to back in July of last year. It has a similar color scheme, although I suppose it's a bit wider than most of those, at precisely 4 inches at its widest point.Further, it lacks other characteristics of those 30's era ties: it does not have lopsided construction on the back side, it is lined (most 30's ties I own aren't) and

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Here's another nice tie in shades of brown and orange, which seems to be a favorite color combination for tie designers in the 40's and 50's. I have an entire tie rack devoted to this general color combination and hue. For a few more ties in this general color scheme, see some of the following links:Posted 9/14/08Posted 3/30/08Posted 8/12/07Posted 9/17/06Posted 3/5/06Well, that's plenty to make

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I don't think these are supposed to be the yellow ribbons tied "round the old oak tree," as it says in the song. These look more like ticker-tape ribbons, or maybe old film unwinding. Who knows? They don't look exactly like any of the above, but are suggestive or reminiscent of all of them.This is an attractive forties tie, good quality fabric that has a nice brocade pattern woven into it. It

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-2900211998233788332009-01-11T19:30:00.000-08:002009-01-11T19:41:10.769-08:00

FINALLY! I'm back, with another vintage tie. I do apologize for the two months' worth of absence, but things have been very busy. I'm not sure I really have time today, either, but I'm making time, since I really want to get back to posting ties, and writing at least a little bit about them.This is a nice one. Pastel orange background, with splashes of lavender (pale purple, if you prefer) and

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-14031933444812982462008-12-03T21:11:00.000-08:002008-12-04T14:11:55.223-08:00

Hi folks, loyal readers, casual browsers, whoever you are!I wish to apologize for the lack of any new postings since the beginning of November. I didn't intend to take this break, but I've just been ferociously busy, and haven't been able to find any time for scanning and posting new ties. Because of the busy holiday season, this unintended break may well stretch through the end of the year, and

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OK, we're back to standard forties era ties, after several weeks of various diversions. It's getting hard to remember which ties in my collection have already been featured on the blog, and which have not. However, I looked through all my scanned images (which is faster than reviewing the entire blog), and didn't find this one anywhere.It's a classic forties look, just a sixteenth of an inch

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No tie got posted last Sunday. Sorry. We were out of town. My sister lives on a big fruit orchard up in the Hood River Valley, in the little town of Odell, Oregon. Last Sunday we were at her place, canning applesauce all day. It was work, but it was fun! And we went home with almost 30 jars of applesauce. Plus another couple of jars of apple juice. My sister and our cousin canned another 85 jars

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Here is the second thirties-era tie from the bag of ties I received last Sunday. This one is a more ordinary design, traditional stripes in red, black and silver.The construction is very typical thirties, with no lining, just the tie fabric itself, with the design woven directly into the fabric, and a thin seam sewn all around the end, and edges. Off-center construction in the back, as you can

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Just two weeks ago I was apologizing for presenting another thirties tie when I had previously thought I was all through with that era. In the meantime, I discovered another thirties tie hidden in my own collection, special in a fairly unique way, at least for my collection, but that's not the one I'm presenting today. That one will have to wait a couple of weeks.Instead, this new thirties

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In recognition of the first day of Autumn, which occurs at the autumnal equinox tomorrow, I present my newest tie depicting autumn leaves. I'm afraid this is probably the only autumn tie I'll be able to blog this year, as I've already shown off all the others in past years. I'm fresh out of vintage autumn leaf ties, except for this one.To see all of my earlier vintage autumn ties, visit September

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Everytime I glance at this tie, before my eye/brain combination has time to parse just what it is that I'm seeing, I think for a split second that I'm looking at a bunch of those giant E's that optometrists make you look at. "Which way is the E pointing now?"But when I look more closely, I realize, of course, that these are NOT giant letter E's. They are pairs of interlocking squares. One of each

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Oops. Back at the end of July when I posted the latest addition to my collection of thirties era ties, I indicated that I thought (which I did at the time) it was the last one I had. No more thirties ties until I find and buy another one, I thought (and wrote). Then this week, going through one of my other vintage tie racks, what do I find? What appears to be yet another thirties tie that I had

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-33943265157535512772008-08-31T21:51:00.000-07:002008-08-31T22:50:22.295-07:00

Sorry about last week. We headed out immediately after church to attend a family get-together, down in the Portland area, several hours drive from home, and there was no opportunity to scan or post a tie. Then we spent a couple of days visiting my Mom in Oregon, with no Internet access at all.So here's this specimen. I chose it because of a connection of sorts with the last tie I posted. What's

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The pattern on this tie is strange enough, but the fabric is what's really strange! Luckily there is a label which illuminates the fabric, somewhat. The label, interestingly, is sewn into large end of the tie, about nine inches up from the end of the tie. It reads as follows:Guaranteed for LIFENYLON Tiesby ShermanAnd yes, indeedy, this tie is most definitely made from nylon fabric. It is heavy

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-37312383358711743002008-08-10T20:04:00.000-07:002008-08-10T20:23:25.444-07:00

This is an example of not really paying attention and thinking less of a tie because of its current condition. This tie is old, has a stain on it, and has totally lost whatever resiliency it once might have had. The fabric is limp and almost bedraggled looking nowadays. And the colors are not particularly bright or spectacular.Consequently, I never paid it much mind, or thought very much of it. I

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-6079789645176123262008-08-03T21:31:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:43.471-08:00

OK, I have so many things to say about this tie that I hardly know where to begin. First, although you can't see it in the scan, it has an off-center construction on the reverse side as do all of the thirties ties I've posted.However, this tie is lined, unlike the vast majority of the thirties specimens, and it doesn't have its pattern woven directly into the fabric the way those ties do. So I

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-14212002596777537982008-07-27T20:41:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:43.661-08:00

Here's the other thirties era tie that I picked up while on vacation. It's amazing to me how many of the ties from that era I have that are basically some variation on maroon. The one this resembles the most closely is my entry from just a few weeks ago, titled Thirties Polka Dots.This one isn't quite the same, of course, just similar. This one has pairs of dot-like objects, except that when

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-46552260464644290192008-07-20T22:42:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:43.877-08:00

My vacation in Santa Cruz, California, did have a positive side to it from the standpoint of this blog, to kind of match the negative side of causing a hiatus in posting. That positive side was our expedition one afternoon into several vintage clothing and antique shops, plus a visit to the local Goodwill.The result? This tie, and another, both of thirties vintage, plus one forties specimen, and

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-63634437959831342642008-07-13T17:44:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:43.977-08:00

First off, I should probably apologize for my three weeks of absence here on the vintage tie blog. But everyone has to have a vacation once in a while. Even though only one of the weeks I was gone was really vacation.So, for anyone interested enough to read this entry, the weekend of June 22 I was back in Tillamook, Oregon, where I lived for several years in the first part of the current decade.

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I have one more thirties tie to post, but I have to take a break this week to celebrate Father's Day instead. Since, of course, ties are inextricably associated with the occasion, as the standard gift of choice. NPR even did a segment this morning on how fewer and fewer men wear ties to work anymore, and consequently how fewer and fewer ties are purchased as Father's Day gifts.I'm not a father,

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-71039076255191317252008-06-08T22:30:00.001-07:002008-12-08T16:44:44.371-08:00

Here's another thirties beauty that I missed the first time around. Or I may have acquired it since then, I'm not sure.These stylized tulips appear in a lush chocolate brown with copper highlights on the petals, against a richly brocaded, almost iridescent background of ice blue stripes overlaid on a background of the brown, which shows through the edges of the stripes.Brown seems an odd color

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-40022652647781306312008-05-25T21:42:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:44.449-08:00

Back in early 2007, when I featured ties from the thirties (or ties that I have some reason to believe are from the thirties), I thought I had shown them all. All of them in my collection. But I missed at least two. So I'm going to include them now, to go along with the new one I acquired and presented a couple of weeks ago.To see the earlier thirties, era ties on this blog, visit the early

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No tie got blogged last weekend. No time. My apologies to anyone who cared enough to check the blog.I believe I've exhausted any and all ties in my vintage collection that depict actual things from the real world. So now we're back to abstract designs of one sort or another.Back in 2007, to kick off my second year of blogging ties, I featured my somewhat limited collection of thirties-era ties. I

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-35590506618532757342008-05-04T19:33:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:44.781-08:00

When I was presenting the vintage musical ties in my collection, I completely forgot about this one, and it's probably the best of all! Yesterday I was looking for a musical tie to wear to church, and amongst all my modern ones, I came across this vintage beauty, always one of my favorites, and suddenly realized I hadn't put it up here on the blog. A major oversight.I think that when I get ready

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-74812901113400686892008-04-27T18:04:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:44.946-08:00

One last music tie before I get back to the more traditional vintage ties. This one belonged to my father-in-law (now deceased), and was a gift to him by friends, as he was a fine amateur musician, played piano, sang, directed choirs, and in his later years, avidly took up the organ.I don't know for sure, but I suspect it dates from the 1980's, which probably doesn't qualify it as a really truly

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Continuing the musical theme (pun unintentionally intended) from the past two postings, here is a tie depicting numerous identical vintage style gramophones on a deeply brilliant green background.I'm not sure what the age of this tie is, or what period it comes from. It is about the right width, and shares some characteristics similar to the fabric of the thirties, but I'm almost certain it's

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-4730304262041868482008-04-13T20:27:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:45.244-08:00

No tie got posted last week. We were out of town, on a family beach house weekend, down in Lincoln City, Oregon, and didn't get back until quite late Sunday evening. So no time to post.This is the second promised hand-painted tie depicting musical themes. In this case, a curvaceous music staff flows down the tie with a treble cleff and key signature of two sharps (D Major or B Minor, take your

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-14220643974385988122008-03-30T17:02:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:45.310-08:00

I think we're nearing the end of my series of ties depicting real things. This is the first of two hand-painted ties featuring musical images. This one has four musical instruments painted on it, along with three small pieces of musical staff and notes.The instruments appear to be, starting at the top, a saxophone, a soprano sax, or perhaps a clarinet, a trumpet or cornet, and finally, a

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-32323803395549725892008-03-23T15:54:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:45.408-08:00

No tie got posted last week, sorry. A combination of factors conspired against me. First, it was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, and one of the busiest times in the life of a church musician such as myself. Second, I was in the process coming down with a nasty cold, which still has me coughing and hacking and blowing, etc.I did get this tie scanned last Sunday, I just didn't manage to

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-23019291873054717462008-03-09T20:02:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:44:45.665-08:00

Here is a truly interesting and unique tie from famous designer Lilly Daché. The famous French/American designer, who lived from 1898 to 1989, was most well known as a milliner, a hat designer, but she also designed other accessories, and eventually dresses, and men's accessories, like ties.I'm not sure the design of this tie really fits in my current theme of ties depicting "real things" as the

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-71088206044391517382008-03-02T20:05:00.001-08:002008-12-08T16:44:45.747-08:00

Continuing the theme of ties depicting real things, here is a tie showing some tropical getaway, replete with potted palms. The detail isn't really that great, so I can't say for sure if the tie is depicting a scene in the Bahamas, or Mexico, or some other Central American nation, or just southern California or Florida. Take your pick, I guess.In addition to the tiled villa in front of which

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-32212401308438845732008-02-24T18:09:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:46.180-08:00

This tie depicts the fairy tale style castle where Romeo and Juliet (from two weeks ago) or any other star-crossed lovers could appropriately live their life of happily ever after, should they be so fortunate. Likewise, the demoiselle from a month ago could well be on her way to a castle like this, once she steps back into her fine equipage.It's a definitely a Walt Disney style castle, or perhaps

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Hopefully varying only slightly from the current theme of ties that depict real things, I present in honor of Valentine's Day just past, this vintage tie depicting red and white hearts on a field of navy blue. I suggest that this varies slightly from the theme because real hearts are not, or course, heart shaped.But this is the only vintage tie in my collection that seems directly related to

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-25101728532447880322008-02-10T18:09:00.001-08:002008-12-08T16:44:46.520-08:00

Continuing the theme of ties that depict people and things; images from the real world, real or imagined, I call this week's tie Romeo and Juliet, since he is reaching up to her on the balcony at night, and then, below, they are depicted together, embracing.Sometimes I refer to it as my "Mozart" tie, since the man appears bewigged and costumed as was the style in the Mozart era. But I think Romeo

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-41098306965966183612008-02-03T18:45:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:47.088-08:00

To celebrate 100 Vintage Ties blog entries, and my third year blogging ties, I can't resist showing off my pièce de résistance, the crème de la crème, the ne plus ultra, the apex, the acme, if not the epitome and pinnacle of my vintage tie collection, namely my Salvador Dali specimen.Every vintage tile collector covets a Salvador Dali tie, and they sell quite frequently on eBay, as there were

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-16373921190862820072008-01-27T19:34:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:47.817-08:00

Well, I've been majorly deleterious about posting any ties in this new year, 2008. Which is a fancy way of saying I've been absent for a few weeks. Sorry about that. It's no way to kick off a new year, but my Sunday's have been pretty hectic, and there just hasn't been any chance to post until now.I started to work on a very special post a couple of weeks ago, but didn't have time to finish it,

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I'll admit that my titles for these three matching set ties have been just a bit over the top. Opulent Orange, Ruby Red and now, to finish the group, Glorious Green. But I can't help it.These are some of my all time favorites in my collection. They remind me of those brilliant, old-fashioned Christmas Tree ornaments. So I wanted to save them for a special occasion, and the holiday season and end

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-40568997957773436322007-12-23T17:48:00.001-08:002008-12-08T16:44:48.382-08:00

Here's the second exemplar from my matched set trio from the Spokane lingerie salesman's hoard. This one is a brilliant deep-hued crimson red color, certainly suitable for Christmas. And the design on the tie is somewhat reminiscent of an ornate Christmas tree ornament, or several such ornaments, if you will.So, how to describe the design on these ties? It's difficult. A main feature are the

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-65957357074128900872007-12-16T22:45:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:48.535-08:00

This is the first of three ties I'm presenting in recognition of the Christmas season. I realize that orange isn't normally considered a Christmas color, but wait until you see the next two! The next two weeks I'll feature this same tie in red and green, the traditional Christmas colors.This tie is one of a threesome I am fortunate enough to own, all the same design and pattern, each in a

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-20877386849865544682007-12-09T22:53:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:48.644-08:00

As you can see, I've decided it's time to move on from fall images. Winter is most definitely here, at least weather-wise. We had snow lightly falling all morning today, and there's still a light dusting on the ground, although we didn't really get any significant accumulations.The color combination on this tie seems kind of wintery to me, although that's certainly a subjective analysis. I'm

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-55252572211825458402007-12-02T14:44:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:48.796-08:00

This isn't my tie. But I have it to share with you thanks to one of my faithful Vintage Ties readers. Thanks, Jim! He wrote as a comment on last week's posting that he had the same tie, only in a different color scheme. I asked if he could send me an image, and he did!I hope you don't mind my posting it here, Jim, and thanks for sending and sharing it. I love seeing vintage ties in sets. They are

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-36798480742574951412007-11-25T18:16:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:49.072-08:00

I don't suppose this tie would have to be assigned to the autumn season, since its colors are not all that autumnal. But in my book, any tie featuring leaves gets worn during the autumn season, so I'm posting it here, as well. I guess autumn is just about over for this year, and as it so happens, I still have at least two more ties to feature next year at this time.This tie has a rich royal blue

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-27754437916240330472007-11-18T18:07:00.001-08:002008-12-08T16:44:49.338-08:00

This is one of the newer autumn ties in my collection. If I remember correctly, my wife found it somewhere sometime within the past year or so. It's a nice tie, but showing signs of its age. Primarily, because it's lost most of its resiliency, and is kind of limp.But also, because it seems a bit off center. If you look closely at the pointed end of the tie, you will notice that one side of the

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-13063360945252265032007-11-11T20:25:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:49.435-08:00

This is one of the more strikingly colored autumnal ties in my collection. The basic color is a richly vibrant shade of brilliant orange. The leaves are golden and brassy, almost coppery colored in some places.One could argue that these are feathers, not leaves, I suppose, but I prefer to think of them as leaves, and given that orange is a color strongly associated with autumn, leaves seem the

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-3010677939051249212007-11-04T18:15:00.000-08:002008-12-08T16:44:50.063-08:00

So, I was missing in action again last week. I actually scanned this tie a week ago Saturday, but on Sunday I was too busy, and there was no time to actually get it posted or to write about it.I played an organ recital at Olympia First Baptist church where I am the organist and pianist. This was a formal recital with music by Bach, Brahms, Bruckner (love those "B's") and also Johann Walther,

Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123374646270368766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20508911.post-13262675353927245682007-10-21T20:48:00.001-07:002008-12-08T16:44:50.498-08:00

Here's yet another from my collection of autumn-themed ties. I consider any tie depicting leaves to be autumn-themed. Which isn't to say that I NEVER wear one of these ties at other times of the year, but I make a point of wearing as many of them as I can during this time of year.In this case we have only slightly stylized leaves drawn in white in little green circles also outlined in white

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So I missed another week. Yes, we were out of town again. Between Wednesday afternoon, when we left, and Monday evening when we returned, we put well over 1000 miles on our trusty auto! So there was no opportunity for blogging a tie until now. So on to this week's tie:Now here's a bit of an unusual design for a tie with an autumn theme! A large leaf (I suppose it COULD be a feather, but we're

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Continuing a bit of a theme from last week, albeit a somewhat tenuous connection, I present what I'm calling "acorn pixies." Each little green cap surmounts an vaguely acorn shaped head, replete with grinning smiley face! You may not think these look like acorn faces, but that's what they remind me of, so that's what I'm calling them.So what's the connection to last week? Last week we had oak

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In honor of the first day of autumn, I am posting this tie featuring oak leaves. Leaves always suggest the season of autumn, even if they aren't fall colors, per se, but a lovely combination of deep blue, paler blue and silver, as in this case.The swirling lines sweeping down the tie suggest that the leaves are falling from the trees, or being blown by the winds of autumn, furthering the

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Now this is my idea of an ugly tie! Kind of a sickly olive green color combined with bright red. Ugh! Not my idea of an attractive color combination. If anyone out there disagrees, offer me 20 bucks plus $5 shipping, and this beauty (I mean horror) is yours!Now the design isn't so bad. I like the big stylized floral shape, similar to the "rosettes," as I termed them, from a few weeks ago. And the

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The title I assigned to this post just about says it all. Colorwise, anyhow. So what do I call the shapes on this tie? Three-cornered stars? Three-petaled flowers?There is probably a proper name for this shape, but I don't know what it is. My wife thinks they look like stylized rocket ships sitting on the launch pad about to take off.But I have no idea how to describe the black and white figures

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Here's a nice 4 1/4 inch specimen. I'm calling them eggs for lack of any better descriptive term. The groups of nine tannish brown circular objects, which appear to be embedded into the surface of the tie reminded me of nice brown eggs, nestled into some kind of container.Of course they are surrounded by many more objects of the same shape which do not resemble eggs at all, what with their

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Don't ask me why I called this tie "Red & Blue Icicle Swirls." That was just the pseudo-poetic expression that popped into my head when I was trying to think what to call it.I'm not even sure that "swirls" is the right term to use. Curlicues might be more accurate. And why icicles? The color patterns on the tied, all kind of swirled together in shades of silver, white and blue, with the red

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This is an intriguingly patterned tie. First we have some largish tan circles, filled with smaller solid brown circles. Then we have an arc shaped slice filled with concentric brown circles on a tan background. All superimposed over a solid deep red background.All in all it makes for quite a striking design. Striking enough that we don't really miss the lack of a brocaded fabric in this case.The

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This beauty is another of my favorites, and hangs on my rack of orange, brown and tan colored vintage ties. There are over 25 ties on this one rack alone.I have similar racks for blue, red, and green. The green rack also holds some miscellaneous ties in silver, gray, and other colors. Plus there is a separate rack devoted to ties with autumn leaves, most of which were featured on the blog last

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Now here's a tie that no one has cut down, refolded, and narrowed! It's fully 4 and 1/4 inches in width at its widest point.Quite striking in design, with two dark green patterned sections cut from much larger circles impinging on a silver background, the circular patterns themselves filed with small overlapping circles, some plain, some filled with many pointed stars, some of which have a

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Look Ma! Vertical Stripes! Unlike most traditional striped ties, which place the stripes horizontally, or more often, diagonally across the front of the tie, these are straight up and down. Not quite your normal stripe arrangement.The tie itself is beautifully brocaded, with an elaborate arabesque pattern that includes paisley-like figures here and there. What is an arabesque, you ask? Here's one

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Here's another beauty with a modern, abstract, yet geometrical kind of design. Like the "One Giant Ornament" tie from a few weeks ago, I had to cut off the normal, pointed end of the tie, in order to show you as much of the design as possible.I always regret it when I'm forced to do this--cut off the end of the tie in a scan--because it's that pointed piece at the end of the tie that gives all

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