Cool Gift of the Day
Thursday, September 08, 2005
What it is:
A spectacularly clever tie, printed with visual instructions on how to tie it.
Why we love it:
There are many rites of passage in a young man's life, both large and small. Few of them, however, will have as great an impact on his ability to look professional and polished as learning to properly tie a necktie. It's no small feat, and simply making a haphazard knot is not the point of it. Tying a tie should be approached with grace, style and dexterity, great attention should be paid to detail, the lay of the silk, the curve of the knot. Of course, this all assumes you can remember which part you fold under where, and when. If you've got a young man in your life who is approaching that important "typing his own nexktie" age (or, let's be honest a man of any other age, since many of them can't quite manage it) you can show him your support with a nexktie that shows him the ropes. The brilliant designer Josh Bach brings us a tie with training wheels, a tie that is both neck decoration and instruction manual in one. The hand finished silk tie is printed with step by step visual instructions on how to tie a necktie, so that he'll never forget again. The pattern is beautifully rendered, and the tie is as good looking as it is helpful. If you're worried about the embarrassment of wearing a trainer tie don't be, he can always just pass it off as a coll post-modern statement.
Who we'd give it to:
Young teens, fashion mavens, post-modern tie wearers.