Neckties

Both Brad Delong and the Wall Street Journal have written about neckties. The Delong post is here:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/12/semiformal-ipho.html

And the Wall Street Journal Article is here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119820646382444181.html

Personally, I love neckties. In general, men are allowed to wear four colors--black, gray, blue and brown--and black and gray aren't really colors, and I don't like brown. Ties allow men to wear something red, or yellow, or purple, or green, or even pink. For this reason alone I hope they never go away--Obama notwithstanding.

I did learn from the Journal, though, that when visiting Islamic countries, I should wear some kind of wool or cotton tie; the key is to avoid silk.