10E2701 | Fridays Are Ties Days - Lemon Presser

 Again for those in the back... just stick with a 'four in hand' or schoolboy knot. 

Derek Guy/dieworkwear did a history of the name and signalling of 4IH and Windsor knots etc that is great https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1830190184887210073    

"Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity." FRWL 

I really dig a niche icon tie. This woven “‘57” represents a Trinity College (CT) tradition began in 1857 - the wooden lemon squeezer associated with the lemonade that a popular College staff member made each year on Class Day [first day of classes - ed]  The phrase 'make lemonade from lemons' didnt come into popular use until 1910s and may not be related to this tradition.

"alynn" neckties were the brainchild of Alan and Lynn Cadan, who founded the brand in 1979 in their CT home w a tilt to more creative/wacky designs. Dig it. Still going in this vein - https://www.alynn.com

10E2700 | Turn The Collar

Just as explaining a joke takes away the fun... I didnt get the 'before' picture of the shredded collar, but you know what I mean...

Turning the collar on a shirt is an older trick.  Unstitch blown out collar, flip it over, restitch. Like khakis have a 'half life' some shirts live forever from anyday-to weekends only-to lawnmowing. 

 

10E2699: Fridays are Tie Days | Self-tie or GTFO (repost)

File under "you never know when you might need one..."    Teen's prom season for example. 

Always keep your eyes peeled at thrift stores for black 'ties so you are not caught out.  This vintagey example made by AKCO in England and worn (I believe...) as part of the legal wear for A. Laurie and Co. solicitors in Edinburgh (Scotland).   I did get this in an Edinburgh thrifty so makes sense...

10E2698: FATD | A small church thrift store in Cambridge MA

Hat tip to one of the OGGGGG preppy bloggers Guiseppe Timore on this one...  A church thrift store in Harvard Square ("square" has 2 syllables in the vernacular).  It is small.  It is cramped.  But it is cheap. 

Shirts from your faves + maybe some 80s windbreakers or jackets. And great $4 ties...  Reminder - at this point you are standing 500 yards from the Andover Shop itself.

 

 

Christ Church Thrift Shop, 17 Farwell Pl, Cambridge, MA

 

10E2697: FATD | A small school in Cambridge MA

"O sure - HE want to Harvard..." 
- Louis Winthorpe III 

Pops was a guest lecturer at Harvard in the 1970s when we first landed from the UK. This bow tie's particular shield denotes the JFK School of Government (often called Harvard Kennedy School or just, you know, K School) where 2 other family members attended.  I wouldn't wear it but he can. 

 

Great heraldry site from Harvard here.  

Because it is almost Thanksgiving it is also time to revisit one of the Preppiest movies ever. We had Trading Places recorded off the tv (VCR kids) and would watch it several times a year (along with Splash) - some lines are part of our family vocabulary at this point.

 

 

The opposite of casual Friday... Fridays are tie days. (FATD) 

10E2696: FATD | JPress Oysters and Lemons

 

 

 

Gift from a queen of thrifting... multi-generational! Amazing - thx!

 

 

The opposite of casual Friday... Fridays are tie days.