A shit tie gets you into every room in Britain that has a dress code, because those codes tell you to wear a tie and then say absolutely nothing about what can be printed on it. Chuck it on with the matching shirt, blazer, bucket hat and shorts, all at once, no ceiling. Everything below: the prints, the occasions, group orders, knots, washing it after somebody spills a pint on you, and why we make them at all.
There is a specific feeling that comes with walking into a wedding, a race day or a work do and realising you look like everyone else. Grey suit, white shirt, a tie the colour of a filing cabinet. You spent forty minutes getting ready to be visually identical to a room of blokes you have never met.
Then the night happens without you. Nobody comes over, nobody starts anything, and you go home having talked to the two people you arrived with. The suit did its job and did nothing else.
A shit tie fixes that for less than the price of a round. It clears every dress code in the country, it lives in a jacket pocket, and it puts something ridiculous exactly where people's eyes already are. This guide runs through the lot: the loophole, the range, the occasions, group orders, the practical stuff and the reason a tie company ended up funding mental health charities.
Nobody Has Ever Legislated What Goes On A Tie
Every code says wear one, none say wear this
Go and read a British dress code properly. Any of them. They will tell you a jacket is needed, a collar is needed, a tie is needed. Then they stop. Not one of them has ever got round to the question of whether the tie can have mushrooms on it.
That is not a loophole we invented, it is a loophole that has been sitting there since the things were made compulsory. The rule is about the presence of the object. It has never once been about the content of the object, and that gap is worth more to you than any amount of arguing at a door.
Take the Stewards' Enclosure code at Henley Royal Regatta, one of the stuffiest in the country. Gentlemen need a lounge suit or a jacket and trousers, with a tie or a cravat. That is it. The Regatta Enclosure is looser again, and the FAQ gives more thought to umbrellas than to what your neckwear depicts.
The stewards, the marquees and the men on the door
Royal Ascot is the toughest one normal people actually attend and it works the same way. The full enclosure dress code lists suit colours, waistcoats, hat brim widths. It legislates women's hemlines to the centimetre. It says nothing whatsoever about the print on a bloke's tie.
Etiquette coaches write essays on this. Forbes has done it too. Hospitality guides like this Ascot week rundown and even the local council's event listing go into badges, arrival times and enclosures. Still nothing about print.
We are not telling you to bluff your way into the Royal Enclosure wearing aubergines. We are telling you that everything below that bar, which is roughly every event you will attend for the rest of your life, has no defence against a shit tie whatsoever.
Why the tie beats every other way in
You could try this with a shirt and you would get caught, because shirts are what dress codes actually police. Colour, collar, sleeve length: all of it gets checked at the sort of venue that checks things.
Ties never get checked, because the only question anyone asks is whether you are wearing one. The answer is yes. You are extremely compliant. You are, in fact, more compliant than the bloke next to you with an open collar and a story about how his was in the car.
Golf clubs are the best example going. The old ones still want a tie in the dining room after play, and writers who take golf attire and country club dress codes seriously will explain at length why it matters. Turn up with a flamingo round your neck and you have followed the rule to the letter while ruining the room. Our golf day outfit guide handles the rest of that kit.
The Shit Tie Range, Print By Print
Mushrooms, space and the trippy end
Start here if you want people to actually come over and talk to you. The Shroom Tie Set is the one that gets squinted at across a table before someone works out what they are looking at, and the Black Out Mushroom Tie Set does the same trick on a dark base, which makes it the sneakier of the pair at a formal do.
The Magical Psychedelic Tie Set is full sixties poster, swirls everywhere, and it comes with a matching pocket square that most blokes forget to take out of the packet. The Trippy Space Tie Set puts UFOs and smiley faces where a paisley usually sits, and it has a matching shirt, hat and shorts behind it if you fancy going the whole way.
These are our biggest sellers in the tie range and it is not close. Something about a psychedelic print on formal neckwear breaks people's brains in exactly the right way.
Flamingos, leopards and things with teeth
Animal prints read from across a room, which makes them the safest bet for a wedding where you want to be noticed from the other end of a marquee. The Bananas For Flamingos Tie Set is filthy pink and cheerful with it. The Flamingo Fandango Tie Set runs a busier version of the same bird and has a matching shirt, blazer, bucket hat and shorts sitting behind it.
Leopard is the other one that shifts. The Leopard Kiss Tie Set and the Turquoise Leopard Print Tie Set take a pattern people associate with a certain type of confidence and stick it somewhere nobody sees it coming. The turquoise version is the loudest thing in the drawer and we are not apologising for it.
Every one of these arrives as a set with the pocket square included, so you are not buying one item, you are buying a coordinated pair that happens to be covered in big cats.
Sport, saints and the rude one
Sport is where British blokes accept being ridiculous most easily, so we lean into it. The DRS To Impress F1 Tie Set is built for a race weekend and disappears beautifully into a Silverstone crowd that is already dressed like a paint explosion. The Scrum On My Face Rugby Tie Set covers the Six Nations and every rugby club dinner from September to May.
Occasion prints handle the calendar. The St Patrick's Day Tie Set takes March, the Retro Sticker Tie Set and the Fluorescent Fruit Fiesta Tie Set do summer, and the Neon Party Tie Set handles anything with a dance floor. The Pride LGBTQ Tie Set shifts hard in June and then gets worn all year, which is exactly right.
Then there is the Jolly Todger Eggplant Tie Set, which is the most complained-about item we sell and our proudest achievement. Also the Unicorn Poo Tie Set, for anyone who needs bringing down a peg at their own leaving do.
The one that suits you is the one that made you laugh
We get asked which print to start with constantly, and the honest answer is not a styling answer. Scroll the range, notice which one made you snort, buy that one. That reaction is the product working, and it is a far better guide than any advice about your colouring.
If you want something that reads from a distance at a big venue, go animal print or fluorescent. If you want people to come over and ask, go mushrooms or space. If you have a specific event in the diary, go sport or occasion.
And if you genuinely cannot choose, get two. They cost less than a taxi from a wedding venue back into town, which is a comparison we make often because it keeps being true.
The pocket square everybody leaves in the bag
Half of you are not using the pocket square and it is doing our heads in. It comes with the tie. It is free. It is sitting in the packaging in a drawer while you wear half a set.
A matching square is the thing that makes the whole outfit look deliberate rather than accidental. It gives you a second hit of the print at chest height, which is roughly where every wedding photographer aims.
Fold it loosely, let some pattern show, and stop reading guides about it. Nobody in the history of British parties has inspected a pocket square fold.
Where To Actually Wear One
Weddings, and the table at the back
Weddings give a shit tie the best return in Britain, purely because the baseline is so grim. Forty men, four suit colours, and one bloke with fruit on his chest. He gets talked to all night and everyone else gets the buffet.
Group buys work best here. Ushers in matching prints, or the whole stag party in the same tie at the evening do, turns a normal reception into something that ends up framed. It also gives a group a uniform without anyone hiring anything.
Timing that is practical rather than preachy: if the ceremony is somebody's traditional church day, the evening reception is where the ties earn their money, because that is when the dance floor fills and the photos get taken.
Racing, rugby and the Grand Prix
Race days are made for this. The code asks for a tie, the crowd is already dressed up, and by half two everybody has had a drink and lost interest in being sensible. Ascot, Aintree, Cheltenham, Goodwood, same maths at all of them.
Motorsport is even better because the sport is already loud. The British Grand Prix is a grandstand full of team kit, and DRS To Impress belongs in it. Coaches run straight to the circuit, the history of Silverstone is a decent read on the way up, and there is a whole Grand Prix Ball which is precisely the sort of black tie event these were built to infiltrate.
Rugby dinners are one of the last places where a tie is genuinely expected rather than tolerated. Scrum On My Face has been to more of them than most of our staff, and it has never once been asked to leave.
Worth saying plainly: the British sporting summer is basically one long excuse for this. VisitBritain's sporting calendar lays out where all of it lands, and a decent chunk of those events either request a tie or attract a crowd that has already decided to dress up for no reason.
Golf days sit in the same bracket and get their own treatment in our golf polo range, since the polo covers the round and the tie covers the presentation dinner afterwards. Stag organisers looking at a golf weekend will find the planning guides useful for the logistics we cannot help with.
Christmas, Movember and the office
Christmas party season is the obvious one, and a shit tie beats a novelty jumper on every count. It is cheaper, it works in a restaurant with a dress code, and you will not sweat through three courses in it.
Movember is the other big month. The whole point of growing something ridiculous on your face is that people ask about it, and a tie does the same job with less commitment. Movember's mental health hub lays out what the month funds, and there is good writing on why it matters beyond November.
Wear it on a normal Tuesday too. Nothing improves a stand-up meeting like a colleague slowly realising what is on your chest.
Places with no rules at all
The loophole stuff is clever, but the funniest use of a tie is somewhere that never asked for one. A tie at a pool party. A tie with shorts and a bucket hat at a festival. A tie and nothing else above the waist on the last night in Benidorm.
This is a real and extremely popular use of the range. Formal neckwear turning up somewhere entirely inappropriate lands harder than any shirt manages alone.
Festivals reward it most. Shorts, Hawaiian shirt, bucket hat and a matching tie makes you the person the whole campsite remembers, and the tie is the detail that tips the outfit from loud into properly unhinged. Our stag do shit shirts guide covers the packing side of that.
Wear The Lot: Tie, Shirt, Blazer, Hat
Just the tie
The starting point. Tie and matching pocket square over whatever suit is already in the wardrobe. This is the version most people buy first and it gets the highest number of comments per pound, because the suit builds an expectation and the tie takes a hammer to it.
It lands because everything else is familiar. Nobody is examining your outfit. They are seeing a suit, then noticing a column of psychedelic mushrooms running down the middle of it.
Fine place to start. Rubbish place to stop, because the next three levels are all better.
Tie and shirt in the same print
Several tie prints exist as full Hawaiian shirts, and wearing both together is not a clash you need to manage. It is a matching set and it is the whole point. Shroom with Shroom. Trippy Space with Trippy Space. Flamingo Fandango top to bottom.
The effect changes completely. One item looks like a bloke with a joke. Two matching items look like a bloke who committed, which is funnier and considerably harder to ignore. Eight lads doing it at a reception is a photo that circulates for years.
The complete guide to shit shirts goes deeper on the shirt half if you are building outward.
The full four-piece and beyond
Add the blazer. Flamingo Fandango, Shroom and Unicorn Poo all exist as blazers, and a matching blazer, shirt and tie in one print is the most committed thing available to a man attending an event with chair covers.
Then the hat, the shorts, the bum bag, depending how formal the room is. There is no upper limit and we have never seen anyone regret pushing further. The blokes who come back with the best stories are wearing four of our things at once.
| How far you have gone | What is on | Where it works | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Tie and matching pocket square | Office, wedding guest, christening | Double takes and one very good chat |
| Committed | Tie plus matching shirt | Race day, rugby dinner, stag reunion | Photographed all night |
| Unreasonable | Tie, shirt and blazer, one print | Weddings, Christmas do, awards night | You are now the event |
| Fully gone | Add hat, shorts or bum bag | Festivals, stags, golf days, holidays | Strangers asking for pictures |
Group Orders: Stags, Ushers And Teams
Same print or a spread
Both look great and they do different jobs. Everyone in the identical print reads as a team and lines up beautifully in a photo. Everyone in a different print from the same collection reads as organised chaos, which is more fun at a reception where people are moving about.
Our steer for weddings: identical for the ushers, spread for the evening crowd. For stag weekends, spread the whole time, because a decent chunk of the entertainment is finding out which mate ended up with the aubergines.
Add shirts if the money stretches. A group in matching ties is good. A group in matching ties and matching Hawaiian shirts is the photograph that lives in somebody's downstairs bog for a decade.
Spares, sizes and the bloke who forgets
Order two spares. Every single time. Somebody's tie ends up in a taxi, a hotel room or a hedge, and a spare turns a small disaster into a story you retell at the wedding.
Sizing is not really a thing with ties, which is why they are such a good group item. No sleeve lengths, no chest measurements, no arguments about whether Dave is a large. One size, everybody happy.
There is always one man who does not order. Get his anyway and hand it over in the pub. He will wear it, he will love it, and he will claim it was his idea by Sunday.
Timings
Order earlier than feels necessary. Group sizes only ever grow, someone always joins three weeks out, and nothing looks worse than one bloke in a plain tie at a table of flamingos.
Everything on delivery windows and returns sits on the site, and the shit ties collection shows what is in stock across the whole range at any given moment.
Shout if you want a hand picking prints for a group. We enjoy this more than is healthy and we have firm views about which tie suits a best man who has not written his speech.
Corporate orders and the fundraising angle
Offices order these more than you would think, usually for a charity day, a summer party or a conference where somebody has decided the team should be recognisable across a crowded hall. A room of matching loud ties does that job better than lanyards and costs about the same.
It also lands well internally, because profits go to mental health charities and that is a genuinely easy thing for a company to stand behind. You get the photos, the team gets a laugh, and the money goes somewhere useful.
If you are organising something like that and want a hand pairing prints to a group size, get in touch. We would far rather help you plan it than watch you order sixteen of the same tie and discover four people already own it.
Knots, Length And The Bits That Actually Matter
Small knot, more print
Knot choice matters more on a loud tie than a plain one, and not for the reason the style magazines give. It matters because a fat knot eats print. You lose a chunk of the design into a lump of colour under your chin and the joke gets swallowed.
Use the four-in-hand for anything busy. It is the simple one most blokes tie by instinct without knowing it has a name, it uses less fabric, and it leaves more of the pattern showing down the front where people can read it.
Windsor is fine when the print is a small repeat and you can spare some. Four-in-hand when the design has an actual image on it, like the mushrooms or the F1 graphics. That is the whole rule. Anybody telling you a knot reveals your character has far too much free time.
Length, and the thing everyone gets wrong
Tip should land around your belt buckle. A bit above is fine. A bit below is fine. Halfway up your ribcage is the one that wrecks photographs and it takes ten seconds to avoid.
Tall blokes: take more length on the front blade before you start tying, so the shortfall lands on the back blade where nobody looks. If the skinny end sticks out underneath, shove it in the keeper loop and get on with your evening.
Fold the pocket square loose rather than into a sharp point. Loose shows more print. Same principle as the knot, other end of the jacket.
Collars, and print on print
People ask whether a printed tie works over a printed shirt. It absolutely does, and doing it in the same design is one of the best things you can do with the range.
Matching print on print reads as deliberate. Two different prints together reads as chaos. Neither is wrong, there is no version of this where you have gone too far, so go with whichever makes you laugh harder in the mirror.
Only genuinely practical note is collar shape. A spread collar gives a bigger knot room to sit right, a narrow point collar suits the slimmer four-in-hand. That is fit, not volume, and it applies identically whether your tie has stripes or unicorns on it.
Ties for people who never wear ties
A decent chunk of our tie customers have not worn one voluntarily since a job interview in 2011. That is fine and it is arguably the ideal starting point, because you are not replacing a boring tie, you are adding an item that did not exist in your life.
Nobody needs to know it is your first in a decade. Tie it in the mirror once before you leave the house, check the tip lands near your belt, and you are done. The whole thing takes forty seconds and the four-in-hand is genuinely idiot-proof.
The reaction you get the first time will do the rest. We have lost count of the customers who bought one for a specific wedding and then ordered three more within a month.
Fabric, Washing And Surviving A Night Out
What they are actually made of
Ours are printed rather than woven, which is exactly why the colours are as aggressive as they are. Woven silk physically cannot do fluorescent fruit. Printing can, and the trade-off is a smoother, cooler feel than a heavy traditional tie.
They knot clean and they hold their shape. They are lighter than wool, which is a proper advantage at a July wedding when the marquee hits thirty degrees and the bloke in heavyweight worsted is quietly dying.
Standard adult length and width, nothing eccentric. It behaves exactly like the boring tie already in your wardrobe right up until somebody looks directly at it.
Spills, and the pub incident
Something will go on it. Curry at the reception, red wine at the Christmas do, a pint at the rugby that was never going to end well. This is normal and it is not fatal.
Blot, do not rub. Rubbing drives the mark into the fabric and spreads it across a print you happen to like. Cold water on a clean cloth, press, lift, repeat, dry flat and nowhere near a radiator.
Never put it in the machine. Never iron it directly, because heat and printed fabric fall out badly and the shine you create does not come off. Cool iron over a tea towel if you absolutely must, and briefly.
Storing it and packing it
Roll it, do not fold it. Start narrow end first, roll loose, stand it in a drawer. That stops a permanent crease forming exactly where the knot sits, which is exactly where everyone looks.
Untie it properly at the end of the night. Reverse the knot instead of yanking the thin end through, which is the single most common way a tie gets destroyed, usually at 2am by a man operating well below his best.
Packing: roll the tie inside a shoe or a rolled-up shirt. It arrives uncreased and takes up no space at all, which is why a tie is such a strong item for stag weekends where luggage allowance is being fought over in a group chat.
A Brief, Stupid History Of Neckwear
Croatian soldiers started this
The tie is not English and it was never sensible. It turns up via Croatian mercenaries fighting for the French during the Thirty Years' War, wearing knotted neckerchiefs the French thought looked great and immediately stole. Cravat comes from that theft, and Expat in Croatia tells the story properly.
Croatia has never let it go, quite rightly. The kravata is treated as national heritage and Zagreb writers will happily explain how a bit of army neckwear took over the planet.
Best fact in the whole story: the nonprofit Academia Cravatica once wrapped the Roman arena at Pula in an enormous red tie. An entire organisation devoted to neckwear heritage doing the loudest possible thing with a tie, on a two thousand year old building. There is a proper academic paper on the tie as national symbol if you want it straight.
How it got so boring
Somewhere between the 1600s and the modern open-plan office, the tie went from flourish to leash. Narrow, then wide, then narrow again, picking up a load of mythology about knots and dimples and what your stripe says about your school on the way.
It started as decoration worn by soldiers showing off. It ended up as corporate wallpaper in a shade called charcoal. That is a fall from grace and nobody talks about it.
Which makes putting mushrooms on one closer to the original spirit than any navy stripe has managed in three hundred years. We are not ruining a tradition. We are restoring one.
There is an actual Necktie Day
18 October. Necktie Day exists, largely because Croatia decided the world ought to acknowledge what it started, and Cravat Day coverage handles it with exactly the mix of pride and silliness we approve of.
Stick it in your calendar. It is a free, internationally recognised, entirely defensible excuse to wear something absurd round your neck to work and cite heritage when challenged.
It also lands neatly before Movember, then Christmas do season, then race days and weddings from spring. One item, most of the year covered.
Shit Tie Versus Every Other Way Blokes Try To Stand Out
The novelty jumper problem
Every December thousands of men buy a jumper with a reindeer on it, wear it twice, then stare at it in a drawer for eleven months. It is the most-bought and least-used comedy garment in the country.
Three problems. It is seasonal, so it is dead by Boxing Day. It is boiling, and the average work do happens in a restaurant with the heating on full. And it cannot get into anywhere with a dress code, so the second the party moves somewhere decent you are the one underdressed.
A tie has none of those problems. Works in January, works in a heatwave, walks into any room a plain tie could. Same laugh, twelve months of use, less money.
Socks, cufflinks and other quiet rebellions
Novelty socks are the classic hedge and the classic mistake. Nobody sees them. You are wearing a joke that requires you to cross your legs and hope, and the reward is somebody clocking a cartoon on your ankle for half a second.
Cufflinks are the same problem with a bigger price tag. Lovely, subtle, and subtle is not what we do. If the goal is being noticed, putting your entire personality on a bit of metal the size of a five pence piece is a strange plan.
Bow ties get closer and a loud one is a genuinely strong move at black tie. The reason we make straight ties is surface area: roughly four times the print, running down the exact line people look at when they talk to you. Even the serious tie retailers concede novelty ties are how you stand out at an event.
The maths
| Item | Worn per year | Gets past a dress code | Shows in photos | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novelty jumper | Two, if you push it | Rarely | Yes | Boiling, seasonal, drawer decoration |
| Novelty socks | Loads | Always | Basically never | A joke nobody hears |
| Loud cufflinks | Now and then | Always | Barely | Pricey and microscopic |
| Loud bow tie | A few | Usually | Yes | Great at black tie, limited elsewhere |
| Shit tie | All year | Always | Every single one | The one that pays for itself |
This is not an argument for owning one thing. Own the socks, own the jumper, own the tie, and wear the lot together if you fancy it. It is simply that if you are buying one item to be remembered by, the tie does the work.
Things You Only Learn After Wearing One For A Year
The two second delay
There is a measurable pause between somebody noticing your tie and somebody reacting to it. Roughly two seconds. Their eyes land, their brain says tie, then their brain says hang on, and then their face does something.
That pause is where every good conversation of the night gets started, and it only happens because the tie is small. A whole Hawaiian shirt announces itself from the door. A tie makes people discover it, and discovering something feels good, so they want to tell you about it.
Once you have watched it happen twenty times you start setting it up on purpose. Sit opposite someone at a wedding breakfast and wait. It works every single time and it never stops being funny.
The bloke who says he could never wear one
Every group has him. He looks at the tie, says fair play, then says he could never pull that off. Give him one at the next thing and he will not take it off all night.
What he means is that he does not want to be the only one. That is a group problem, not a confidence problem, and it disappears the second three other people are wearing the same thing. This is the entire reason group orders work so well and why stag parties are our best customers.
He will also, without fail, claim the whole idea was his by the end of the weekend. Let him have it.
It outlives the occasion you bought it for
People buy a tie for one specific event. A wedding, a race day, a leaving do. Then it stays in rotation for years, because unlike almost every other novelty item it is not tied to a season or a theme.
We hear from customers who bought a Shroom tie for a mate's stag in 2023 and have worn it to about forty things since. It has been to two weddings, a christening, three Christmas parties and a job interview. It cost about the same as a takeaway.
That is the bit nobody works out until they own one. The cost per wear on a loud tie is absurd, and it quietly becomes the most-used thing in the wardrobe while the expensive stuff hangs there.
The Reason Any Of This Exists
Aine, and why John started it
In 2022 our founder John lost his best friend Aine to mental illness. She was one of those people who seemed completely full of life, which is exactly why it hit the way it did, and it made the silence around all of this impossible to keep ignoring.
John had spent years travelling in loud shirts and had noticed something odd. Strangers talked to him. Conversations started that would not otherwise have happened. That observation turned into both brands, and everything we make since has been built on it.
A tie cannot bring anybody back. It can start a conversation that gets to somebody else in time, which is not a high bar for a bit of printed fabric.
What a daft tie actually starts
This sounds like marketing right up until you wear one. A ridiculous tie gives strangers permission to talk to you. It signals you are not taking yourself seriously, which in British terms is roughly the same as holding a door open.
Blokes are famously rubbish at starting conversations from nothing. Give them a prop and they are away. The number of customers who tell us the tie or the shirt was what got a mate talking on a bad day is the part of this job that makes the whole thing worth doing.
You can see a fair bit of that in the reviews people leave us, which are less about fabric than you would expect and more about what happened when they wore it.
Where the money goes, and where to get help
Profits from everything we sell, ties included, help fund mental health charities. That has been the arrangement since day one and it is not a campaign we run in November.
If you or somebody near you needs actual support rather than a tie: Mind exists so nobody faces a mental health problem alone. Andy's Man Club runs free peer support groups for men right across the UK. The Mental Health Foundation is a solid starting point, Movember's support directory is aimed squarely at men, this list of free UK resources is genuinely handy, and the Big Issue's guide to UK mental health charities explains who does what.
Shit Ties: Your Questions Answered
Will I get away with one at a formal wedding?
Nearly always. Wedding codes ask for a suit and a tie, never for a specific print, and the evening reception is where a loud one really earns its keep. If you are in the wedding party, mention it to the couple first, mostly because they will want the whole group in matching ones the moment they hear the idea.
Does anything come with the tie?
Every tie is sold as a set with a matching pocket square. Plenty of the prints also exist as shirts, blazers, bucket hats and shorts, so you can build out as far as you like. The tie collection shows which prints run across the other categories.
Can I wear two loud things at the same time?
You can wear four and we would rather you did. Matching tie, shirt, blazer and hat is why the range exists, not a risk to be managed. We are not a fashion brand, we do not do restraint, so put the whole lot on and enjoy your night.
Are these only for men?
Not remotely, and the number of women buying them climbs every year. A printed tie over a shirt, a blazer, a suit or a dress works exactly as well, and they are cut to a standard adult length rather than anything gendered. Race days and office parties are where they show up most.
How do I wash one?
You do not put it in the machine. Blot spills with cold water and a clean cloth, dry it flat, keep hot irons away from the print, and roll it instead of folding it. Treat it like that and it will outlast several years of Christmas parties and at least two stag dos.
What if my office has a strict dress code?
Read it first, because most are softer than people assume. Codes tend to specify collar, tie and jacket rather than colour or pattern, which puts a loud tie inside the rules rather than outside them. If yours genuinely bans patterns, save it for the Christmas do and enjoy the reaction twice as much.
What about black tie and proper formal events?
Black tie technically means a bow tie, and a loud one is a strong shout there. For anything short of that, a printed straight tie clears the bar comfortably: awards dinners, charity balls, gala nights and the sort of hotel function room that has a chandelier and a carvery. Nobody on the door has ever inspected a print.
Do the ties match the shirts exactly?
Where a print exists in both, yes, it is the same artwork. Shroom, Trippy Space, Flamingo Fandango, Magical Psychedelic and several others run right across ties, shirts, blazers, hats and shorts, so a full matching set is genuinely matching rather than approximately matching. That is the whole reason the sets photograph as well as they do.
Go And Break A Dress Code Legally
The tie is the smallest thing we make and it does more per square inch than anything else in the range. It walks you into rooms with rules, it starts conversations that were never going to happen otherwise, and it costs less than the round you will buy straight afterwards.
Get one print, then find out the same design exists as a shirt, a blazer, a hat and a pair of shorts, and take it from there. There is no ceiling on this and not one person has ever regretted going further.
Every set sold puts money behind mental health charities, so the stupid thing round your neck is doing a job while you are stood at the bar. Have a look through the shit ties at Shit Shirt Club, pick whichever one made you laugh first, and go and be the most interesting person at somebody's wedding.
