Five Four Club - Clothing Subscription. Stitch Fix Men - Clothing Subscription. Trendy Butler - Clothing Subscription. Neal Caffrey. Traje-y-zapato. 9 for 1 week. 25 Style Tips. A Man’s Guide to the Scarf. Premium Stylish Socks. Ideas Calcetines. How to Tie a Necktie Trinity Knot. *Match Your Tie To Your Shirt* Match ties with striped shirts. 4 Rules For Mixing Shirt & Tie Patterns. Skinny Ties. One of Ralph’s requests for his birthday was skinny ties. They are surprisingly hard to find — either too long or too expensive for a 13-year-old’s wardrobe. So a few weeks ago, I had an idea: I would buy some old fat ties at a thrift shop and take them to a tailor to have them altered. Brilliant, right? But then, of course, I forgot about the idea till 3 days before his birthday. At which point, I tried to rush and make it happen. I found 5 great ties at Goodwill and sped them to the tailor. There, I was told it would take 10 days and cost $37 each to skinny them up.
But since I had the ties in hand, and since they only cost $1 each, I figured I’d try it myself. Here is the before shot. Here is the after shot: DIRECTIONS: 1) Turn your too-wide thrift store tie upside down. Keep un-stitching till you get to the skinniest part of the tie: 2) Pull the tie form fabric out of the lining (there is probably a real name for this, but I don’t know what it is). And that’s it! Into these: How To Tie A Tie | The Full Windsor Knot. How to combine the right tie color with a shirt.