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Is the Fat Tie Back in Fashion?
Washington is not exactly a fashion-forward city, but with the arrival of more high-end stores, that’s beginning to change. Leading the way is an unlikely trendsetter: Bill Clinton.
By
Richard Torregrossa
Published Wednesday, March 05, 2008
While stumping in South Carolina for his wife, the former president wore a spread collar and a fashionably fat necktie—a departure from the conservative attire he’s worn his entire political career. Suddenly the fat tie knot, known as the Windsor knot, is seen more here. Jonathan Capehart, a fashionable editorial writer at the Washington Post, regularly appears on Hardball With Chris Matthews wearing a cravat and collar treatment of the same style. Style guru Steven “Cojo” Cojocaru is promoting his new book, Glamour, Interrupted, sporting a flashy purple-and-white polka-dot tie with a big knot. Who would have thought that Clinton and Cojo had anything in common?
The Duke of Windsor, maybe the most influential menswear force in history, is credited with popularizing the fat tie knot in the 1930s. The Windsor knot was named for him, but it was actually an innovation of his grandfather’s, a variation on the common four-in-hand, the tie most men wear today. During January’s Los Angeles presidential debate, Barack Obama, champion of the slim-cut suit and skinny tie—or no tie—also moved in that direction. Carl Bernstein is already there; he’s often seen wearing fat tie knots again, as are MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and FNC’s Shepard Smith. If either Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the White House, will the four-in-hand melt away in favor of the Windsor knot—just as John F. Kennedy helped kill off the man’s hat in American fashion?
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Caro Riccardo,
ho letto in traduzione il suo trafiletto di critica di stile e d’immagine mediatica sul luc.dell’uomo Politico.
La Signoria Vostra scrive sul nodo della cravatta che indossava il Duca di WR e lo compara con il Politico da Lei citato nel suo articolo.
Mi consenta che il Politico citato non è un Nobile Blasonato e non può vantare una raffinatezza nel vestire.
Il nodo della cravatta è un rito giornaliero ,esso manifesta
la personalità,l’apparteenza sociale,la cultura,lo stile nel rappresentare se stessi.
La manualità manifesta l’arte e rinnova i popoli.
Caro Riccardo Lei ha perfettamente ragione.
Gradisca ,cordiali saluti,
Nino Torregrossa.( Roma-Italia)
Posted by: Antonino Torregrossa -ROMA, Mar 29, 2008 05:59:06 PM
So, am I to take this to mean that the full Windsor knot is back in fashion, or that the actual blade width of ties (i.e., a "fat tie") is increasing? I can’t tell from these descriptions.
Posted by: Less fashion-forward Washingtonian, Mar 05, 2008 09:13:39 AM
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