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Posted: 6/29/2016 11:24:14 AM EDT

"Four in Hand"

"Double Windsor"

Do you use these two common ones, if so which one? Or do you get adventurous and use something exotic like:

"The Eldrige"

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:25:32 AM EDT

[#1]

Four-in-hand or Pratt.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:26:30 AM EDT

[#2]

either Shelby or Windsor

Shelby is a smaller knot than the windsor.

haven't had to wear a tie for quite a while - only wear them for weddings and funerals these days....

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:26:32 AM EDT

[#3]

...awaiting midcap...

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:27:10 AM EDT

[#4]

Square knot.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:28:43 AM EDT

[#5]

Generally, half-Windsor, but I rarely wear ties.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:29:17 AM EDT

[#6]

Four in hand.

I've worn a tie more times this spring/summer than I have in all of my previous years.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:29:38 AM EDT

[#7]

Double windsor, bit id like to take the time to learn somethig different like the eldridge

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:32:14 AM EDT

[#8]

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Four in hand.

I've worn a tie more times this spring/summer than I have in all of my previous years.

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I like it because it is minimalist, classy, and quick.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:32:39 AM EDT

[#9]

Double Windsor.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:33:00 AM EDT

[#10]

No idea what it is called. I just tie it the way my dad taught me 25 years ago.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:33:13 AM EDT

[#11]

half windsor

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:34:01 AM EDT

[#12]

Double Windsor

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:35:35 AM EDT

[#13]

Colombian.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:36:05 AM EDT

[#14]

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Colombian.

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LMAO!!!

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:36:10 AM EDT

[#15]

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:36:31 AM EDT

[#16]

You left out the Pratt Knot. Poll fail!

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:36:33 AM EDT

[#17]

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half windsor

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This

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:37:22 AM EDT

[#18]

Clip or zip was not a poll option?

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:38:44 AM EDT

[#19]

Yosemite Bowline, with Round turn and 2 half hitches as a close second.

Clove hitch or munter/mule if I'm in a hurry and want to be super casual.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:39:04 AM EDT

[#20]

Hangman's noose.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:40:12 AM EDT

[#21]

Double Windsor, unless you're some kind of unwashed heathen.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:40:35 AM EDT

[#22]

Double/full windsor with most modern ties.

Pratt or half windsor if I need a smaller not than the above gives me.

I can't do asymmetric knots, My OCD goes into overdrive.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:41:03 AM EDT

[#23]

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:41:04 AM EDT

[#24]

No idea what its called but I start with my tie like inside out.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:41:21 AM EDT

[#25]

Always Windsor. I dislike the 4 in hand.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:41:21 AM EDT

[#26]

Pratt knot only

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:41:51 AM EDT

[#27]

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You left out the Pratt Knot. Poll fail!

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How is it a poll fail? I left a spot for other/something exotic?

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:42:04 AM EDT

[#28]

Double Windsor--ends up with a perfectly centered dimple like the last pic (black guy, pink tie).

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:42:07 AM EDT

[#29]

Full Windsor.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:42:28 AM EDT

[#30]

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Posted: 6/29/2016 11:47:58 AM EDT

[#31]

The knot I end up using is entirely dependent on the collar of the shirt I'm wearing. If it's narrow like a point collar, it needs a skinny knot like the four in hand. A button down or a spread collar looks best with something wider like the half windsor or the pratt/shelby, and even wider collars like an english spread or even a cutaway call for the granddaddy of them all, the full windsor. Pairing the wrong knot with the wrong collar looks off.

ETA: I like the look of the pratt/shelby knot the best, and it seems to be the most versatile to me. It's symmetrical, easy, and you can make it wider or narrower by pulling the neck loop horizontally before you cinch it up.

Posted: 6/29/2016 11:56:53 AM EDT

[#32]

The "Custom Shop Knot."

It's obscure - used to be in a pamphlet from the shirt maker of the same name. A mirror image of it is somewhere in the back of Fink & Mao's book, a nice symmetrical self-releasing knot. Depending on how you work it, it is reasonably versatile with varying collar widths.

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Posted: 6/29/2016 11:59:32 AM EDT

[#33]

I don't have a fat neck, so I don't use Double Windsors

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:04:19 PM EDT

[#34]

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The knot I end up using is entirely dependent on the collar of the shirt I'm wearing. If it's narrow like a point collar, it needs a skinny knot like the four in hand. A button down or a spread collar looks best with something wider like the half windsor or the pratt/shelby, and even wider collars like an english spread or even a cutaway call for the granddaddy of them all, the full windsor. Pairing the wrong knot with the wrong collar looks off.

ETA: I like the look of the pratt/shelby knot the best, and it seems to be the most versatile to me. It's symmetrical, easy, and you can make it wider or narrower by pulling the neck loop horizontally before you cinch it up.

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Huzzah! A man of quality!

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:07:06 PM EDT

[#35]

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No idea what it is called. I just tie it the way my dad taught me 25 years ago.

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Basically this. But only maybe 18 years ago. From the pics, it looks like the four hand one

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:08:28 PM EDT

[#36]

I was taught to tie a Windsor as a kid.

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:10:17 PM EDT

[#37]

I always called it a "Full Windsor" rather than a "Double Windsor"

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:10:28 PM EDT

[#38]

Another for the Pratt!

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:11:08 PM EDT

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Double Windsor.

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This.
Always.

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:13:27 PM EDT

[#40]

I voted pie, because the type of knot I use is dependent on the type of shirt collar I'm wearing.

That being said, I usually wear a point collar, and, thus, I most often tie a half Windsor knot.

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:14:48 PM EDT

[#41]

Half-Windsor.

That's the one my Dad taught me, and that's the one I have used all my life.

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:17:21 PM EDT

[#42]

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Huzzah! A man of quality!

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The knot I end up using is entirely dependent on the collar of the shirt I'm wearing. If it's narrow like a point collar, it needs a skinny knot like the four in hand. A button down or a spread collar looks best with something wider like the half windsor or the pratt/shelby, and even wider collars like an english spread or even a cutaway call for the granddaddy of them all, the full windsor. Pairing the wrong knot with the wrong collar looks off.

ETA: I like the look of the pratt/shelby knot the best, and it seems to be the most versatile to me. It's symmetrical, easy, and you can make it wider or narrower by pulling the neck loop horizontally before you cinch it up.

Huzzah! A man of quality!

Thanks. If anyone doesn't know what I mean, google a picture of Tucker Carlson, one of the worst offenders I can think of off the top of my head. Tucker always looks like shit next to his co-hosts, and I think it's because of his tie knot choice. Although he's thankfully grown out of his affectation for bow ties, he always uses a schoolboy (four in hand) knot with fairly wide collars. As a result, you can see the loop portion of the tie in the gaps left on either side, and he appears unkempt and slovenly.

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:20:36 PM EDT

[#43]

Half Windsor.
Four in hand is for little boys at Sunday School.

Kharn

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Posted: 6/29/2016 12:21:50 PM EDT

[#44]

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Thanks. If anyone doesn't know what I mean, google a picture of Tucker Carlson, one of the worst offenders I can think of off the top of my head. Tucker always looks like shit next to his co-hosts, and I think it's because of his tie knot choice. Although he's thankfully grown out of his affectation for bow ties, he always uses a schoolboy (four in hand) knot with fairly wide collars. As a result, you can see the loop portion of the tie in the gaps left on either side, and he appears unkempt and slovenly.

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The knot I end up using is entirely dependent on the collar of the shirt I'm wearing. If it's narrow like a point collar, it needs a skinny knot like the four in hand. A button down or a spread collar looks best with something wider like the half windsor or the pratt/shelby, and even wider collars like an english spread or even a cutaway call for the granddaddy of them all, the full windsor. Pairing the wrong knot with the wrong collar looks off.

ETA: I like the look of the pratt/shelby knot the best, and it seems to be the most versatile to me. It's symmetrical, easy, and you can make it wider or narrower by pulling the neck loop horizontally before you cinch it up.

Huzzah! A man of quality!

Thanks. If anyone doesn't know what I mean, google a picture of Tucker Carlson, one of the worst offenders I can think of off the top of my head. Tucker always looks like shit next to his co-hosts, and I think it's because of his tie knot choice. Although he's thankfully grown out of his affectation for bow ties, he always uses a schoolboy (four in hand) knot with fairly wide collars. As a result, you can see the loop portion of the tie in the gaps left on either side, and he appears unkempt and slovenly.

Look at Obamalamadingdong's knots. It's well known he is a slovenly bum, but you'd think a POTUS could find someone to dress him.

Posted: 6/29/2016 12:22:25 PM EDT

[#45]

Ties are for people who pay attention when they are dressed up.
I wear a bow tie.
Doesn't get dragged through my food.
And I look super sexy in bow ties.