#2 Light Blue/Light Green Seersucker Diamond

#3 TAKEN Floral Print Classic

#4 Floral Print Diamond

#5 TAKEN Blue/Green Patch Madras Diamond

#6 TAKEN Super Preppy Patch Madras

#7 Earthy Linen Club Diamond

#8 TAKEN 100% Silk Paisley

#9 Reversible Silk Navy and Gold TWO AVAILABLE

#10 100% Silk Navy/Silver star pattern

#11 Reversible Silk silver/navy star pattern and Navy Linen

#12 Reversible Cranberry Chambray and silk paisley

Here’s some combos we love from our upcoming summer collection (Available May 1)

Yellow Madras (Coming Soon) with Navy Gingham

Navy Dot Linen (Frederick) with Salmon Madras

Pink Gingham with Light Blue pinstripe Linen

White Pique, Navy Blazer, Blue and yellow striped bow tie and a yellow seersucker pocket square.  When wearing one of our lapel flowers, we think its best to go as subtle as possible with your pocket square.  The White pique is one of the best pocket squares because it adds interest and texture but can go with everything.

Have you ever presented a bow tie as a gift in this fashion?

You could almost skip the wrapping paper.

I am loving everything about this commercial.  Especially the look on the Jay Bilas’ face as he’s trying to tie his son’s bow tie.

One of our customers is a teacher and when his students ask him how he ties his bow tie he says it is just like tying a neck tie while being strangled and 10 minutes late.

I think it is easiest to learn while in front of a youtube video and a mirror.

Here is one of my favorite videos that is actually teaches us how to tie one by our favorite science guy, Bill Nye

And my other favorite is this one produced by a wonderful gentleman’s shop in Columbia, SC.

Seersucker is a thin, puckered, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped or chequered, used to make clothing for spring and summer wear. The word came into English from Hindustani (Urdu and Hindi), which originates from the Persian words “shir o shekar”, meaning “milk and sugar”, probably from the resemblance of its smooth and rough stripes to the smooth texture of milk and the bumpy texture of sugar.

During the British colonial period, seersucker was a popular material in Britain’s warm weather colonies like British India. When Seersucker was first introduced in the United States, it was used for a broad array of clothing items. For suits, the material was considered a mainstay of the summer wardrobe of gentlemen, especially in the South, who favored the light fabric in the high heat and humidity of the summer, especially prior to the arrival of air conditioning.

The fabric was originally worn by the poor in the U.S. until undergraduate students in the 1920s, in an air of reverse snobbery, began to wear the fabric.  Damon Runyon wrote that his new habit for wearing seersucker was “causing much confusion among my friends. They cannot decide whether I am broke or just setting a new vogue.”

This weekend only.  Go pick out what you’re going to wear on Easter Sunday – and the whole week after too.

Nearly every day, we receive packages with neck ties from all over the country. We rip them open and check out what is inside.

We take out the seams and press them out.

We add our own interfacing and sew them up.

And just like that.

Its Magic.

Voila!

We get to make something new again – and we love it.

If you’re interested in purchasing this, you can do it through this link.

*the really good photos – #2 through #5 in this post were taken by our customer and friend and fellow artist, Joe Jackson.  Thank you, Joe for making it look so cool.

We have really good light.

Our “model” is named Bancroft. Here he is wearing a lapel flower and a channing bow tie. We have good times dressing this guy up.  It’s always nice to be able to point to him when a visitor picks up a diamond point freestyle bow tie and says what does this one do? 

If you’ve ever sewn, you know the glory that is the magnetic pin cushion – or pin collector I guess. It’s not very cushy.

Yes its true, even our trash piles are a work of art.

And the floor after a series of Neck tie to Bow Tie conversions.

And finally, a pile of freshly pressed four toned gingham bow ties that so far have only been available to our Bow Tie of the Month Society.

Well, the only thing cuter than a little boy in a bow tie is quite possibly a little girl wearing a bow tie headband.  So much adorable!  These littles came in to our studio for a visit the other day and we played a little dress up.  Aren’t they great?  These are the kiddos of our friend and fellow maker of great things in Rock Hill, Melody Joy Designs.  Check out her stuff.  Great options for mothers day gifts here.

We had a lot of fun putting this order together as well.  It is for a family we know having easter pictures made.  Little guy in a classic car emblematic and seersucker bow tie, Dad in a reversible seersucker and grandpa in a very dapper looking seersucker neck tie.  I can’t wait to see the final shots.

DAY 281:  Navy Linen.  Diamond Point.  Very nice.  Yours is here.

DAY 282:  Our archived Morrison Classic:  houndstooth and solid khacki reversible.  Get it here.
DAY 283:  Another archive, the Malcolm Classic.  Get yours here.

DAY 284:  Sharp & snazzy.  Pink linen with pinstripe / green and navy striped silk reversible.  Club Diamond.  Here it is.

DAY 285:  Brown wool with almost microscopic dots.  Classic cut.  Get it here.

DAY 286:  Another special from our top-shelf line:  The Orville.  Club Diamond. Grab it here.

DAY 287:  The sold-out Bates makes another appearance with a navy silk striped red and green in a straight batwing reversible.  Here it is.

DAY 289:  A trusty Diamond Point Neal. Get yours here.
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