Knotting the tie
Japanese people are very formal-means suits is the formal dress. In the morning, we can see so many people rushing to the railway station or bus stand wearing suits. I am not sure even in Europe whether we can see this much people wearing suit all the time. This suit culture put me in trouble one day.
I wore suit only once before coming here-for a conference in Delaware. My friend Rishi was the brain behind the suit at that time. We went to Sears (or JC Penny?) and bought one of the expensive blazers from there. Of course, a tie was also bought but I never ever imagined that that tie would be a reason for this blog!
As I was totally new to this “formal” world, Rishi knotted the tie for me (NOT “tied the knot!!!). He told me whenever I want to wear it put it around the neck like a garland and just tighten it. I did exactly like that during the conference at Delaware and everything was just perfect. I took extra care to preserve the integrity of that tie while coming to Japan.Everything was fine till my first presentation day. I have to present my work plan to my group. Of course, I should be impressive with indispensable formal dressing. Blazer is okay, but tie??!! No problem because I have the my ready made tie-take it, wear it around the neck, tighten it and forget it. I did the same.
Everything was again fine and the presentation was over and I am back in my apartment. With a great smile, I removed the blazer and now it is the turn of the tie. Since I had tightened it in the morning, now I have to loosen it. Oh! Rishi………..You didn’t teach me how to loosen it!!! Alas………..there is no mirror also in the room. I have to use the common mirror in the wash room. But what a mirror can do if I don’t know how to loosen it. I am getting tensed. I took deep breath, counted 1 to 10 and again back from 10 to 1, again took deep breath, but tie is still in my neck. For one moment, thought of cutting it using scissor-simultaneously the thought of 75 dollars I spent was also came to my mind and dropped the idea. I can at the maximum sleep with tie in my neck, but in the next day, when I am going to brush (we have common wash room in that apartment), I cannot go with tie. All these thoughts came to my mind. I can unknot it completely-no problem; but then who will knot it for me?-Rishi is in Seattle and I am in Tokyo. Finally I took the brave decision. I somehow managed to untie the tie and in that process, the precious knot has gone and the tie is in its original state. Now either I have to ask some of my neighbors or I will no more be formal. But I didn’t give up. Larry Page and Sergey Brin invented Google for me! I did a Google search in the very next morning and took the printouts and kept with me. I am still using it whenever I need to wear tie. I learned the terms Windsor knot, Half-Windsor knot etc. after that.
This is a very useful link to learn how to knot the tie:
http://www.tie-a-tie.net/
So I tied the knot……..errrrrr…sorry………….I knotted the tie
I wore suit only once before coming here-for a conference in Delaware. My friend Rishi was the brain behind the suit at that time. We went to Sears (or JC Penny?) and bought one of the expensive blazers from there. Of course, a tie was also bought but I never ever imagined that that tie would be a reason for this blog!
As I was totally new to this “formal” world, Rishi knotted the tie for me (NOT “tied the knot!!!). He told me whenever I want to wear it put it around the neck like a garland and just tighten it. I did exactly like that during the conference at Delaware and everything was just perfect. I took extra care to preserve the integrity of that tie while coming to Japan.Everything was fine till my first presentation day. I have to present my work plan to my group. Of course, I should be impressive with indispensable formal dressing. Blazer is okay, but tie??!! No problem because I have the my ready made tie-take it, wear it around the neck, tighten it and forget it. I did the same.
Everything was again fine and the presentation was over and I am back in my apartment. With a great smile, I removed the blazer and now it is the turn of the tie. Since I had tightened it in the morning, now I have to loosen it. Oh! Rishi………..You didn’t teach me how to loosen it!!! Alas………..there is no mirror also in the room. I have to use the common mirror in the wash room. But what a mirror can do if I don’t know how to loosen it. I am getting tensed. I took deep breath, counted 1 to 10 and again back from 10 to 1, again took deep breath, but tie is still in my neck. For one moment, thought of cutting it using scissor-simultaneously the thought of 75 dollars I spent was also came to my mind and dropped the idea. I can at the maximum sleep with tie in my neck, but in the next day, when I am going to brush (we have common wash room in that apartment), I cannot go with tie. All these thoughts came to my mind. I can unknot it completely-no problem; but then who will knot it for me?-Rishi is in Seattle and I am in Tokyo. Finally I took the brave decision. I somehow managed to untie the tie and in that process, the precious knot has gone and the tie is in its original state. Now either I have to ask some of my neighbors or I will no more be formal. But I didn’t give up. Larry Page and Sergey Brin invented Google for me! I did a Google search in the very next morning and took the printouts and kept with me. I am still using it whenever I need to wear tie. I learned the terms Windsor knot, Half-Windsor knot etc. after that.
This is a very useful link to learn how to knot the tie:
http://www.tie-a-tie.net/
So I tied the knot……..errrrrr…sorry………….I knotted the tie
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