I love autumn for many reasons, but the top three are: 1. Pretty leaves. 2. Pumpkin pie. 3. It's tie season again! As a few of you have mentioned to me, I've been pretty lousy about keeping the Butch Store up to date, but I hereby resolve to do better. Not only do I make a whopping $9-$15 every month (because 5-6% of the proceeds go to support this site when you shop there), but making sure butches look good is a service to our great community. With that in mind, I'm reviving the Butch Store, and promise to have more terrific, up-to-date recommendations for clothing and more, starting with ties. (BTW, I've devoted previous posts to ties: why I love wearing ties but sometimes hesitate to, dos and don'ts of tie-buying, and an ode to wool ties, for starters. You can see all my tie-related posts here.) If men's fashion week, GQ, Esquire, and common sense are right, ties will be as popular as ever this late fall and winter. Less emphasis on looking like Don Draper, more emphasis on tailoring, wool, plaids, blues, and dark greys. So check out the Butch Store to get started, and tell me what else I should add. Have you rocked a tie yet this fall, dear readers? What questions/concerns do you have about wearing ties? Sometime this month I'm going to post a list of tie-wearing tips, so I'd love to hear your questions!
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Tessa
11/4/2012 01:31:22 am
So, I have a question: what are good ways to dress down a tie? I really enjoy wearing ties, especially at gay bars, where a woman in a tie isn't necessarily out of place. But I don't want to look like I'm trying to be formal when I'm just out dancing with my friends.
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11/7/2012 04:17:16 am
Hope my recent post answered your (excellent) question! :) BW
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Ruth
11/4/2012 06:22:47 am
Tips for tie-wearing? PLEASE DO! This couldn't come at a better time, i'm thinking strongly of taking the plunge and starting to wear ties around college sometime in the next few weeks! So scared and excited at the same time! Eep!
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11/7/2012 04:18:06 am
Right on! That is awesome. I'll post some general tips soon. Feel free to send me any other questions you have. I'd love to see a pic and hear how it goes!
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Pearl
11/5/2012 10:12:32 am
I'm an 8th grader (please save all the condescension, yes I do know who I am) and I like wearing ties of both sorts. I hardly ever do, however, because of the whole 'too formal', 'no good shirts to go underneath' thingamajigger, plus the fact that I own no sweater vests and I'm slightly more feminine. Any tips for combating those? Oh, and should I wait until I go from a public to a private school next year?
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11/7/2012 04:16:41 am
Hi Pearl! Thanks for writing. It's awesome that you're only in 8th grade and already figuring out who you are. (Or at least, that you're confident in who you are now--these things can always change, but that's true at *any* age!)
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