I was with an acquaintance in a vintage store in Notting Hill, admiring an old Dunhill vintage tie clip. ‘Are tie clips back in?’ he asked, genuinely. I sound like a traitor to my profession as a trend forecaster, but I find this attitude – that something entirely timeless can be ‘in’ or ‘out’ – vexing in the extreme. It’s like with the brogue plague earlier this year. As much as the pressure mounted to take them off as every high street store brought out a £40 pair of rubber soled imitations, I point blank refused – ‘I will live through this’, I said, and I nearly have.
Tie clips, as this US GQ shoot shows, are ‘in’. These Gucci and Paul Stuart clips – or tie bars as the Americans call them – make these suits. But they always were in, and always will be.
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Trend forecaster?
Accessories should be in, regardless of the guiding ethos of the time.
Can tie clips not be more decorative and ornate? Outlandish ties deserve matching clips.
(Obviously I wasn't referring to the ties in the pictures.)
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Clips can be the perfect accessory
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