Who created the first school tie?
In 1880, the rowing club at Oxford University’s Exeter College One men’s club, invented the first school tie by removing their ribbon hat bands from their boater hats and tying them, four-in-hand. When they ordered a set of ties, with the colours from their hatbands, they had created the modern school tie. School, club, and athletic ties appeared in abundance. Some schools had different ties for various grades, levels of achievement, and for graduates. Such ties had enormous appeal to the vast Victorian middle class. As industrialization allowed for mass consumption of material goods, men wanted to stand out, to assert their social superiority, or to proclaim their allegiance to a group. Today four-in-hand refers to both the standard necktie and the most common knot used to tie it. It’s the ideal knot for ties with thicker interlining and heavy silk. The full Windsor knot is more suited to ties made from lighter weight silks with thinner interlining. When did military officers start we
