I don’t wear ties but if I had to start I think id sport a bolo style.
Bolo ties rock, but I haven’t worn one for years. Last time I did, I got a lot of … comments. 
Seems even eccentric people can still take it a bit too far sometimes. I have a great sterling silver rattlesnake bolo with turquoise eyes that I just love. It was my grandfather’s.
I think if I had to do it, I’d wear a cravat and stickpin. Just to throw people off…
Ties are of tha Debbil…i refuse to wear one. Unless tha wife makes me of course!! : (
@James S., I’ve got a couple of cravats. I wear them during the winter out of my own free will!
Every schoolboy in Britain wears a tie as part of a compulsory school uniform. In keeping with lax and lazy standards many ties come ready knotted with a piece of elastic that is simply slipped around the collar. Shoes are often unlaced, having a piece of velcro to fasten the shoe in lieu of shoelaces. Consequently many boys reach adulthood with excellent anti-social skills, but clueless about knotting a tie or tying shoelaces. (At least your lace-up shoes and ties won’t be nicked). By contrast Eton College (former school to nineteen prime ministers and umpteen royals) stipulates black tailcoat with waistcoat, pinstriped trousers, black leather lace-ups and the famous detachable Eton collar with silk tie or cravat . The basic uniform costs at least £1,000. Scholars still wear archaic gowns, but boys (except monitors) no longer have to wear silk top hats - just a banded straw boater in summer. The boys then go to the best universities, have affluent careers, and can afford to send their children to the same schools to repeat the cycle. Whatever happened to the supposed meritocracy in Britain? The doctors despaired of it from the start, and since the 1980s it seems to have quietly died, and now remains buried in a pauper‘s grave. Almost everyone who is anyone in today’s Britain went to a fee-paying school like Eton. Bring back the grammar school and schools where boys can learn to make manufactured goods again. Britain can then start exporting more than hedge funds, whisky and snuff and import a little less. BTW - Even Britain’s feeble exports are better than Ireland’s, which now seem limited to a sack of potatoes, a shillelagh and several felt hats.
@ PhilipS. A thought for the day, but I’ll take it with a pinch of Wilsons Camphor & Mild snuff.
@pieterClaassen I also have been known to wear a cravat. Bravo to you sir.
Haven’t worn or owned a tie in years. No one does in Hawaii. Even when I go to something formal on the mainland, I just wear an extra nice aloha shirt. If anyone has a problem with it, I tell them to respect my culture.