About a month ago, reader Rick Roberts sent me a copy of an article that was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1995. Titled "Bow Ties" and written by John D. Spooner, it contained this bit of wisdom from Charlie Davidson, proprietor of The Andover Shop in Cambridge, Mass.:
"Do not wear bows all the time. Keep the viewer off balance. Wear them once in a while, the way you might eat liver."
Words for the ages.
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Here is a link to the "Bow-Tie" article, Will.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95nov/bowtie.htm
I've found that even wearing bow ties once a week will get me known as "that guy who wears bow ties." Maybe I should move in better-dressed circles.
Enjoyable article. Thank you Will, Rick and Percy. I have a few bowties but only now where them to private dinners and clubs.
It is well understood in the legal profession, among the older attorney or those who still read into a mans appearance, that a man who wears bow-ties regularly is not to be trusted; he thinks too far outside the box or unconventionally to a fault.
This is not to say don't wear a bow-tie, but rather to say, never let a bow-tie be a defining characteristic of yourself.
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