How to Dimple a Necktie

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Hi my name is Mark Breaux. I've been working in men tailored clothing for about 25 years now and I'm here to demonstrate the proper way to tie a neck tie and get the dimple put in it correctly, the proper length. You start out with the tie, the wide side of the tie over one side. The knot I'm going to demonstrate here is the full Windsor. It ties it broader even knot not angle like the foreign hand. First thing off you cross over the top and then you want to look at this you’re going to wrap this side, this length of the tie around both legs of this part of the tie. So, the first one you go completely around that one leg right there. Then you take tie and pass it underneath and then you’re going to wrap it around this side. Then pull it down and then back to the other side. Then you pull it tight by pulling down and across your chest. And, that ties a fairly, makes a small triangle and U shape there that's the form of the tie or the base. Then you take this lead in and cross it over the face up through the neck and down through that cross where you cross over the face of the knot. Then you pull it down and the tie is always going to have a natural tendency to want to slide, this here face of the tie, it's going to want to slide up above the knot. So, what you need to do is you need to pull this down, sometimes pushing up from the bottom and then that gives you a nice triangle and a small here at the bottom. Also, to put the dimple in a lot of times it just occurs naturally but, you just want to kick sides in and push them forward so you get a nice dimple. Then tighten it up. Also, when you judging the length of the tie it should fall below the waist band of the trousers or if you’re wearing a belt just slightly, the tip should be slightly below the belt. That's going to give you proper presentation and also the tag end of the tie, the small part, there's usually label or keeper on the underneath side just slip it through there and that keeps it from sticking out to the side giving you a poor presentation. So, that's how you dimple a neck tie.

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