Talk:Windsor knot

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[edit] Diagram

Is that diagram accurate? MyNameIsNotBob 21:02, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

No, the first step was wrong...it had you bringing the large section of the tie underneath the tail rather than over it. After that, i think it pretty much followed the right path, but it was all messed up from that first error. I've removed it. If someone cares to re-create the diagram, go ahead by all means.--jfg284 you were saying? 12:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

The photograph shown does not actually show a true Windsor Knot. A Windsor Knot is a symetrical knot that forms a perfect triangle and looks best with a cutaway collar.

[edit] Misleading External links

I removed these external links:

  • http: //www.tieknot.com/windsor-knot.html Windsor knot on tieknot.com
  • http: //www.how-to-tie-a-tie.org/windsor-knot.html How to tie a necktie
  • http: //www.scoutdb.org/h2tat/ ScoutDB.org presents "How To Tie A Tie"
  • http: //www.necktieguide.com/knots4.html How to tie a tie using the Windsor knot

They all show an inferior, if not questionable, version of the Windsor, and one which contravenes the proper directions given in the text of the Wiki article. The scoutdb.org text actually contradicts its own diagrams.

The final link was completely erroneous:

  • http: //tie-instructions.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-tie-double-windsor-knot.html How to tie a double Windsor knot]

It claims to instruct one how to tie the nonexistent "double Windsor", but actually directs one to tie a version of the half-Windsor. A very poor link indeed. ENeville 15:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fink/Mao notation

I removed the following text from the article. Without access to the book, this notation is not generally useful to wikipedia readers.

Using the notation of The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao, the Windsor knot (knot 31) is tied
* Li Co Ri Lo Ci Ro Li Co T
Common variations are
* Li Co Li Ro Ci Lo Ri Co T (knot 32)
* Li Co Ri Lo Ci Lo Ri Co T (knot 33)
* Li Co Li Ro Ci Ro Li Co T (knot 35).

--Dfred 20:22, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Hm... it's quite a simple nand useful notation, which you can see in the link to the external to the book from our article on it. Jooler 08:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I added this notation to the article again after explaining it in the book's page. Delph2 18:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for those additions in the book's article. WP should be, as much as possible, a stand-alone resource. --Dfred 21:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Here is a site which explains the notation nicely and helped me a lot with this knot: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/tieknots.shtml. Also, I've read everywhere else that the Duke of Windsor in fact used the four-in-hand knot with a specially tailored thicker knot. In fact, from any other "tie-site" I've seen it says that the Windsor knot was simply an attempt to replicate his thick-knot style with a regular tie.

From the site mentioned before I found a quotation from the Duke of Windsors Memoirs regarding this item:

Despite the knot's name, it was not, as is commonly held, invented by the Duke of Windsor. In his memoirs A Family Album, the Duke explains that it was his specially made thick ties, rather than a complicated knot, that produced the effect. 'The so-called Windsor knot in the tie was adopted in America at a later date. It was I believe regulation wear for G.I.s during the war, when American college boys adopted it too. But in fact I was in no way responsible for this. The knot to which Americans gave my name was a double knot in a narrow tie - a slim Jim as it is sometimes called. It is true that I myself have always preferred a large knot, as looking better than a small one, so during the nineteen twenties I devised, in conclave with Mr Sandford, a tie always of the broad variety which was reinforced by an extra thickness of material to produce this effect. As far as I know this particular fashion has never been followed in America or elsewhere.'

Another site that has neat diagrams and instructions: http: //www.neckties.com/knots.php

--Killroy 10:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tying

There is no point in having this article without an explanation of how the knot is tied. I'm aware of the relevant WP:NOT clause, and I don't think it was intended to strip articles of essential content. Gazpacho 21:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I would tend to agree that WP:SENSE should come into play here, but clearly the question regarding the procedural aspect of knotting articles needs to be addressed in general wrt WP:NOT... Please feel free to join the exchange going on at Talk:Knot#"How to" tie knots... --Dfred 01:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image of Windsor

The image currently at the top of the page looks like a perfect example of a four-in-hand knot to me. It is clearly not symmetrical which is one of the defining aspects of a windsor knot. A better example should be used. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.172.191.68 (talk) 08:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC).

Quite agree - I saw it and though - isn't a Windsor knot like a triangle? Milkybarnick 16:13, 30 October 2007 (UTC)milkybarnick

It is. It's a four in hand using a tie with thick material. I've removed it. When I get home, I'll produce a picture of a tie in a full windsor (as well as a half-windsor).Kakomu (talk) 12:30, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windsor TIE

In a recent book (c. 2007) about royalty, I was surprised to see the Duke of Windsor linked to the Windsor knot. Surprised, because I remembered it mentioned in Sherwood Anderson's short story "I'm a Fool", published around 1922.

Well, on looking up the reference, I see that the narrator's antagonist wore a Windsor TIE. The narrator took an instant dislike to this tie-wearer, because he was "putting up a good front". This idea seems related to the Ian Fleming quote in the current article. Possibly Anderson knew of the knot, but wrote of the tie because, being a concrete object, it strengthens the story.

Trouble is, there was no Duke of Windsor before 1937, because the title was created expressly for the former King Edward VIII. The House of Windsor itself took that name only in 1914, so chances seem high that the Windsor connection to neckwear predates 1914.

My hunch is that it may be connected to one or more of: (1) a style worn by the servants at Windsor, either on- or off-duty (2) or a style worn at Eton, directly across the Thames, and known for a style of collar (worn with a cravat). (3) Ascot, also associated with neckwear, and only six miles from Windsor

Monomoit 04:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)