Kipper tie

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A Kipper Tie is a type of necktie primarily fashionable in the mid 1960s to early 1970s. The primary characteristics of the kipper tie are its extreme breadth and often garish colors and patterns.

[edit] Design origin

British fashion designer Michael Fish designed the kipper tie in 1966 working out of his establishment in Picadilly.[1]

[edit] Name of the tie

It has alternately been proposed that the name "kipper tie" is a reference to the extreme breadth of the tie resembling a kipper,[2] or a sly reference to the designer, whose last name, Fish, was evocative of a kipper.[3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Grunenberg, Christoph; and Harris, Jonathan. Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s. Liverpool University Press, 2006. P. 213-214.
  2. ^ Schur, Norman W. English English: A Descriptive Guide. Verbatim Books, 1978. P. 136.
  3. ^ Breward, Christopher; Ehrman, Edwina; and Evans, Caroline. The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk. Yale University Press, 2004. P. 131.
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