Hot Times at Old Town

Appearing below are selections from the hard copy Hot Times. The objective is to highlight activities at the School and in the larger community, especially those featuring or of special interest to teachers and staff. Your suggestions are welcome. Enter a comment (under any item); it will come to me rather than automatically appearing.

Relax, take off your tie!

If you’re wearing one. The tie business is in a bind: fewer men are wearing ‘em.

Really? After all these years? The iconic gift for dad and the hallmark of professionalism? Yep. Tie sales have slipped coninuously for the past ten years. According a Gallup poll conducted last fall, the number of men wearing ties to work every day is now down to 6%. A recent story in the Wall Street Journal noted that fhe power of the tie has diminished so much so that the trade organization of American tie makers recently disbanded: the Men’s Dress Furnishings Association, which started as the Men’s Tie Foundation in 1947, dissolved last month.

Can it be that the nation is going folky? Anyway, guys, feel free to doff the neckware.

Filed under: Interesting elsewhere by Skip | July 13, 2008 |


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