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How old are you supposed to be to learn how to tie a tie?
'Cause yesterday, I had to go to a wedding and had to get my roomates to tie it for me. This got me wondering how much longer I should wait to learn the complex and intricate process of tieing a tie.
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Growing up, it was always understood that boys learned how to tie ties by the time they were 12. I was surprised to discover, when I got to college, that some people had not had this lesson.
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I have taught many boys in the 13 to 18 range how to tie one. I feel so . . . fatherly when I do! The simple knot that's in now is not hard to learn. I pretty much taught myself by just looking at it.
EDIT . . . come to think of it, I think I have taught at least one girl as well . . .
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I was 13, and people taught me a shortcut cheater way. My dad fixed it about a year after. My brother has a cheater zipper tie, and doesn't have to tie it.
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Um, tieing (sp?) a tie is simple enough . . . what on earth would constitute a "shortcut cheater way"?
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The knot itself is easy enough. But to get that dimple just right... that took me a few weeks. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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Feh. My dad tried when I was ten, it wasn't until I was 17(?) in high school when we had a professional lighting guy working with the drama club that I learned how to tie a tie.
But seriously, if you've never worn a tie - odds are, you won't have learned.
Of course, once you finally do learn the trick, it's all good.
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Actually, the one I always teach, and that I see most frequently worn nowadays, is the four-in-hand. It's easy and skinny, unlike the short and fat windsor.
Okay . . . I get you. You're saying that he learned one of the others first and now does one of the windsors. Gotcha.
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I learned relatively early, like maybe in Middle school. Since I was in the band, I had to dress up from time to time for concerts. And my parents really like cruises and so I owned a suit from a young age for those occasions (formal dinners). The knot I learned to tie was the Single Windsor, which is still my favorite. For some reason though, my older brother never could quite get that one, and uses the 4 in hand, which is a simpler knot, and now he likes it more for it's narrow knot. Funny thing is, even though I rarely wear a tie anymore, tying it is muscle memory for me. I can't do it unless I actually have a tie to tie. And in college I tied my roommates ties on several occasions, so it's not uncommon for late teens and even early 20s to not know.
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I wore a tie only once and, hopefully, won't have to repeat the feature again. Ever. Not even at my eventual wedding...
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Hmm, the only way I've ever used is the Four-in-hand I suppose.
I learned how to tie a tie when I was a fish in HS. A high-school senior sort of adopted me as a younger brother, and took it upon herself to teach me.
Maybe I'll have to learn how to tie one the standard way, though I really am fond of the smaller knots at the collar. I'd say I've worn a tie... oh, at least 50 times since then. I'd say it was worth it (then again, I never could stand to ask my dad for help with just about anything).
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Learning to tie a tie was just part of being a boy in our church-going family. When I was really young I had a clip-on-tie (as my son does now), but somewhere around age 8 to 12, I got a real tie, and my dad struggled to teach me how to tie it. He could tie a tie just fine, but not when he thought about it. Posts: 16551 | Registered: Feb 2003
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