Is it okay to wear a tie at college/high school?
So I have a friend who wears primarily American Eagle clothes and doesn’t consider himself preppy. He’s a little unique but thinks he has a sense of style (which is essentially just wearing American Eagle clothes). One day he comes into class with a short sleeve shirt much like the one to the left from American eagle, only white, with a nice red tie. He looked like an IT guy or some nerd who was there to fix the system mainframe. People asked him “Why are you wearing a tie today?”mostly assuming that it was for some sports event later that day.He responded to this question always defensively, saying “I like to look nice and wanted to wear a tie.”
Frankly he looked rediculous and obviously this kind of dressing just looks silly. If you are going to wear a tie, it should always be with a nice shirt, with perhaps a sweater covering it in an informal situation. American eagle short sleeve shirts just look ridiculous this way.
But I was wondering, is it acceptable to wear a tie in an informal situation, like high school, college or going out? Guys are always wearing ties in J Crew ads, or Ralph Lauren models, but if you are not a successful businessman who is used to wearing a tie every day of his life, doesn’t it look a little silly? I really don’t know where I stand on this, because on the one hand, it makes what you are wearing look classy, whereas on the other, if your in college where most people just wear t-shirts and polos, you look like you have over dressed to the extreme. Is this sort of thing only acceptable at places like Yale or Harvard?
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After a recent trip to Melbourne, Australia, I found skinny ties with vests and jeans are becomming increasingly popular amongst guys in their mid-20s. While it looks quite cool and modern, I still feel a little odd wearing a tie most of the time - especially at work, where it’s pretty casual and a lot of people are in shirts and jeans.
A Saturday night out on the town, however, I’d have no issue with it. Would definitely never try and pull it off with a short-sleeved shirt, but maybe long-sleeved shirt with the arms rolled up.
Yeah that’s the thing. There’s something about the longsleeve shirt that says like “I was wearing a long sleeve and a tie, but I’m relaxed now and rolling up my sleeves”, versus just having the short sleeve. Even though they end up looking kind of similar…
Ties look classy, not much more to say…
I like ties too.
I wear a tie most days but for informal events, I tend to wear a novelty tie or ‘character’ tie. I have about 50 of them with crazy pictures or wild cartoon characters on them. They lighten the mood and you can get them for every occasion. I have a tie with ‘party dude’ splashed all over it for parties, ties with football or baseball motifs on for sports events and ties with pictures of guitars, saxaphones or drums on for concerts or musical events! Novlety ties are cool
Is it really your business what people wear. If your school doesn’t have a dress code then people are aloud to wear what they want. Does it bother you ?
Hi my name is Big Bubba. I wear ties in school because I am cool and want to look nice and wear ties sometimes. You should too!
Hi big Bubba, keep wearing those ties and keep looking smart. You can’t go wrong in collar and tie and you might just influence others to wear a tie too!
kMhPe2 Thanks for good post