Last time the "Tie was back":
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE5DB163AF...
The Tie is Back
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#12What? Startup hackers following the herds and their fashion fads? Next thing you know, they'll expect all of us to go out and get jobs too, just like everyone else. Moo.
Are you being sarcastic? You need to read PGs essay "The Submarine" to put this in context.
Are you being sarcastic about my being sarcastic?
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#13ok, people, we have to admit, the average startup guys are bunch of fugly mofos.
We totally lack fashion sense, beauty (gym is just a disctraction), etc... etc...
Unfortunately, we are cursed of working and being in a very male oriented industry, in which the very few females we get to interact, are not good looking at all.
oh, well.....
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#17I love The Submarine, it's my favorite pg essay
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#18So many workplaces have relaxed dress for men, the best position to be in is where you don't have to wear a tie to work is to wear one.
You stand out, will be socially tested by your peers for doing so, and will hopefully withstand these tests, and gain social value.
Your ideas will also be noticed more, simply because you are noticed more.
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#19To quote Wikipedia:
"The use of coloured and patterned neckties indicating the wearer's membership in a club, military regiment, school, et cetera, dates only from late-nineteenth century England. The first definite occurrence was in 1880, when Exeter College, Oxford rowers took the College-colour ribbons from their straw boaters and wore them as neckties (knotted four-in-hand), and then went on to order a proper set of ties in the same colours, thus creating the first example of a college necktie."
Ties are only out until you aren't allowed to wear one.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
This time the client is the necktie trade association. Just follow the quotes: user, expert, expert, client.
How do I go about following the quotes?
With trend stories, PR firms usually line up one or more "experts" to talk about the industry generally. In this case we get three: the NPD Group, the creative director of GQ, and a research director at Smith Barney. When you get to the end of the experts, look for the client. And bingo, there it is: The Men's Wearhouse.