スティーヴン・フライさんのインスタグラム写真 - (スティーヴン・フライInstagram)「A selection of bow ties hanging from a banister today. Overdoing it a spot to give every one of them a whole day to themselves, so these bows must take their bows as a chorus line, an ensemble. They’ve even got a theatre audience in opera boxes watching them from the wallpaper. Who knows where I got them all. Some don’t have tags or labels to help jog my memory. But there are representatives here from Frederick Theake (20 years since sadly they were dissolved as a business), Brooks Brothers, Hilditch & Key, Liberty, Harrods, Tie Rack, a company unknown to me whose logo is a bugle or post-horn, Hackett, Paul Stuart, and Paul Smith. I've broken a rule and added a made up rose tie from @lecolonel_official because it's so lovely swipe left for Pic 2 The little video (swipe again) is of me tying the green Hilditch & Key around my neck. As I comment in it, it’s easiest to start by practising on the leg. Most of us will find that just below the knee is the best place, usually corresponding in girth to the neck. I hope some of you might find the video helpful: I do appreciate it’s a fiddly business: impossible to get the camera in to show the way one end is pushed through to complete the knot. it’s all about feel really. Doctors, surgeons, vets and dentists used to favour the bowtie. Unlike conventional neckties they can’t dangle down into a patient’s face or open gizzard and guts. Those days are mostly past, though costume designers in TV dramas will usually pick them to denote an old-fashioned, often private, physician. Otherwise bowties are most associated in the public mind with Winston Churchill and - for my generation – the wonderful Frank Muir and fearsome Robin Day. Who else wears them? Takes a bit of courage. So easy to be dismissed as pompous, self-regarding and, not to put too fine a point on it, something of a dick. So I tend to stroke mine fondly every now and again but not much more than that. Of course, one use is as a substitute for plain black when a dinner jacket (or tuxedo as Americans call them) is required. Oh and you do NOT have permission to take the phrase “I tend to stroke mine fondly every now and again” out of context. Got it? Good.」6月16日 13時40分