A tie or necktie is a piece of cloth worn around a man’s neck. They are worn for many different reasons: Working in a office, formal stuff i.e. Funerals, Graduation, just any sort of formal things. The history of Ties goes way back to 1618! In Croatia, their kings used to wear a fabric sort of almost napkin sort of thing, and it was all the craze! In Europe Men & Women both wore them, wearing them for most of the day. But those “napkin looking things” took ages to get on. In roughly about late 1890’s the British sort of got the tie we see today except it was a bit smaller and wider. Then in 1913 the tie that we see today had arrived. It was made because it would last an entire working day, and not get that dirty. I don’t know why they say that, maybe because some people thought the fabric one was A napkin and dribbled, I don’t know, just speculating. On the ties before this, the knots were complicated. But with the new one it wasn’t, it was called the “Four in hand” because it resembled the reins of the four horse carriage which was used by the rich English. Over the years, there have been minor changes but the one in 1913 is still being based on today. Ties also have meanings, like for clubs or memberships. Like, the CEO’s of Footy club’s wear their clubs colours to a press conference. There are also the famous bow-tie’s. Also there have been 4 different types of ties over the years.Info from, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NecktieNapkin Looking TieUser:Louis le Grand