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The morning tie selection ritual can define the entire day. It is therefore best to be spoilt for choice rather then having to wear an inappropriate tie. The female equivalent to this can possibly be found in the chromatic choices of make up: the need for splashes of colour on …

In the world of sports the tie can sometimes reveal an unexpected team spirit, by becoming a distinctive feature of a team uniform or a national squad’s plain clothes. This unusual role adopted by the tie, far from conformism, is due rather to the desire to symbolically mark association, complicity. …

Twenty centuries of evolutions and metamorphosis could induce to believe that the tie has reached the end of its road. What is never going to happen is that facts exhaust or precede inventions. A fertile tie science fiction has been underway for a long time, able to imagine fractal ties, …

I once asked him to tell me about the times when we were young, naive, hot-headed, silly and simple – minded. « There is something left, apart from youth», he replied. With a sorry face, the old professor paused to dry a tear that was shining in his eyes. Then …

The feminine forays in the male world of the tie are scarce and fleeting , but significant nonetheless. The range of options for women goes from the sexy colour matches to the androgynous ambiguity to the professional uniforms. With cosmetics and womenswear, chromatic vivacity is not a taboo which might …