Friday, March 31, 2006

TIES

I read in the Daily Torygraph, sorry, Daily Telegraph in the Fashion section that girls are now wearing ties as a fashion accessory. Its nothing new is it. Well, good luck to them. I hate the f**king things. I work in an office about three days a week and on one of those days I have to wear a tie. They are uncomfortable and Nerdy and what's worse, when people buy me presents I often get a tie because they know I wear them ergo I must like them.

Men should copy the girls and burn their ties in protest.. It is a symbol of having to conform , oppression, uniformity ( though I quite like uniforms) and class distinction. During the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 , the Anarchists went around shooting anyone who wore a tie , after they got bored of setting churches on fire. Probably there were two of them sitting in a cafe and one (let's call him Pedro),said to the other Juan, " That was good fun, setting a Catholic church on fire, but I'm a bit bored now. What shall we do next? Just then an office worker walked by and Juan said " Bloody bourgeoisie ! Let's shoot anyone wearing a tie today!" Pedro turned around ( I don't know why he wasn't facing him, perhaps it had been his turn to pour the petrol over the pews but Juan did first and so they weren't talking to each other)and said " No , you can't just do that... Oh F**k it, go on then."

I wish I had been a bit cleverer when the girls burnt their bras - We are back in the Seventies now, pay attention atthe back!- in protests. I could have gone around saying- "No, don't do that I'll take it and build a big bonfire with all the others".The girls would have thought me a feminist ( and they would have been right wouldn't they?) and I would now have the biggest tranny bra collection in the world.

Julie
xburning bras

6 comments:

Gabriela Julie Budd said...

I agree. Ties look good if worn fashionably by women and a few men but if , as a man, you wore it in a very individual style, say your own type of knot,the average man would look at you as if you had flipped.

You've got style Nina.

Julie
xx

Fennie said...

Hi Julie,
Just looked you up following the link from Nina's site. Is it the tie, or the collar? Ties would be fine if only they were designed by someone with imagination and made a fashion accessory instead of a species of bib. But I prefer scarves worn like a cravat. I would also like to wear, at least once a proper eighteenth century stock, with a pin. I'm not sure exactly how that works, but it would certainly be more interesting than an ordinary tie.

Take care

Fenniexx

Anonymous said...

I went to a wedding reception wearing a tie. I wore a blue suit that looks great with it. However, my tie came loose and crooked. I danced with a guy who pulled my tie out of my collar. That twisted up my collar. I tried to straighten my tie several times, but I gave up after a while. ---Barb

Anonymous said...

Now, a guy's point of view. I lOVE it when a woman wears a tie. What I love even more is when the woman's tie is tied on crooked, or their collar is sticking up because it gets twisted up in the back. I admit it...I'm a "tie puller". If I'm talking to a woman wearing a tie, just for fun, I'll try to pull their tie so that it becomes crooked or I'll "flip up" their collar to make it stick straight up. A female co-worker of mine once wore a tie to work and I made her tie crooked and twisted up her collar. She spent the whole day not knowing that her tie was crooked. Does anybody else do this? - Mr. Tie Puller

Gabriela Julie Budd said...

Mr Tie Puller - Why do you do that? If its just for a joke then OK, but all the time?

Anonymous said...

I guess you can say it is kind of a joke...I've only done it to a few female friends. But I do love it when they wear a tie. Sometimes I don't even have to pull their tie to make it crooked because it's already crooked (because they can't tie it on straight). However, that's something I would never do to someone I didn't know. -Tie Pulling Guy