While clearing out my folk's house, we of course encountered my father's ties. This is only a selection of the older ones. I displayed them spread out on the floor like this just to document them.
There's such a huge array of different styles from all the different eras he lived through. Very very skinny and long 50's style, extremely wide and short 60's, wild fabrics and prints 70's, and boring 80's.
Look at the extremes in styles here.
Some truly wild stuff.
My mom politely declined my offer to make her something with all of these. I agreed, it would have been Too Crazy to wear.
I don't think I could have made these all work together in one piece. My mom said that my dad would get positive feedback or interaction from people when he'd wear unusual ties, so it kind of became a thing for him. I think he figured that if he had to wear a tie, it might as well provoke conversation kind of thing.
We all picked out one or two ties to take with us to remember him by. My DD took the really skinny ones to wear at her bartender job, my DS took the Tweety Bird one, and I took the Peace & Love one at the top in this picture and a couple of the wilder paisleys. A video version of the above photos, just for fun and dizziness.
2 comments:
That is a lot of ties. Now you have a memory without cluttering up your studio. Good work with the video.
It certainly was a lot of ties, and I was glad not to take them on physically.
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