After spending the last couple days perusing various fashion outlets around Gothenberg, I am here to inform you about the latest trend in Swedish men's accessories...pre-tied bow ties.
I swear that I've seen pre-tied bow ties in practically every store I've been in for the last 2-3 days. I definitely give them credit for the designs, which are definitely cool, hip, chic, innovative, apply the adjective of your choice. I just have to admit that I don't get the pre-tied thing. For such a fashion conscious society, you'd think that there would be a premium placed on actually a genuine bow tie that is self-tied. However, there is something of a kitsch factor involved in the pre-tied version that certainly seems to fit in with the fashion aesthetic here.
On further inspection, I might just be grousing about the whole thing out of my own bias for the fair dinkum bow ties, to borrow an Australian idiom. Knowing how to tie one is a skill that I think ever man should have and that's just my own thing. I should probably refrain from imposing my own preferences on a culture that clearly knows way more about fashion than I do.
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