Bowtie #65

This is a fabric that is not at a great scale for bowties, at least not if you want to understand what is on the tie. However, I think that is its strength. The print almost comes off as fields of color instead of defined imagery.

The other nice thing about this fabric is there are so many colors on it, it probably works with just about any basic shirt. Unfortunately, I have very few basic shirts in my collection.

The larger swatch of this fabric is ripe for many more bowties, and would not necessarily make them look like copies of each other. Maybe I will revisit it when I revisit the other side, as I mention below.

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Now the other side of this tie was a real trouble for me. There are big beautiful butterflies on this fabric, but their placement in the print made it impossible to get them on the tie upright. See, I tie my ties right-handed (maybe it's left-handed, but it's what made sense to me as a northpaw bow-tier), and when you do that, the tie needs to look upright when it is oriented the way you see in these posts (with the diamond tip pointing to the right).

For example, look at the bee on this side. The bee is sort of upside-down, and when I tie the tie so that is in the front, it will continue to be upside-down. This bee, and the butterflies, would only have been upright on the left side of the fabric, which means there is no way for me to orient them the correct way without putting a vertical stitch in the fabric to extend it to the left. Maybe I will do that, or maybe I will commit to having upside-down butterflies in the redux of this orange fabric.

As for tying it the other way, I would love to, but every time I try I get a super sloppy knot. It is surprisingly hard to do. My brain just can't wrap my head around wrapping my tie around the "wrong" end.

I wore the sides of this bowtie on the 18th and 19th of August.