May

28

Windsor.

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There was a line in Stranger than Fiction that has bothered me for some time. The narrator and author Karen Eiffel, played by Emma Thompson, describes Will Ferrell’s narrated and authored Harold Crick as using the “half Windsor” knot when donning a necktie to save time. As opposed to a “full Windsor.”

Now, I learned to tie a tie many years ago, from my father. And I end up wearing a tie a dozen or so times per month, so I’ve had a lot of practice. I always tie in the same way. But some of my ties don’t end up looking particularly good with my ordinary knot choice, with a too-small bulge at my neck.

So, percolating in the back of my mind for a couple of years has been the thought that perhaps all this time, I’ve been using the half Windsor. And that if I were to graduate to the apparently more time consuming full Windsor, what I’d lose in waking hours, I’d more than offset with style.

Today, that thought has been addressed. Finally. I have been doing a halfway job all these years. And tackling the full knot has a decidedly fuller look. Huzzah!


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