Pale Mint Green Knitted Alpaca Wool Tie

These two ties capture the 1970s at its most schizophrenic — the pale mint knit reads like a Tyrolean ski lodge fantasy, all soft edges and alpine wholesomeness, while the black silk with its swirling blue-gray paisley speaks fluent Continental sophistication.

These two ties capture the 1970s' schizophrenic approach to menswear formality — one foot in rebellion, the other still planted in the boardroom.

These two ties capture the 1970s menswear revolution from opposite angles — one through texture, the other through sheer visual assault. The mint green alpaca knit whispers its rebellion with that chunky, almost hand-crafted surface that rejected the slick corporate silk standard, while the golden paisley silk screams it with those swirling, psychedelic patterns that could double as wallpaper in a Marrakech riad.

That pale mint tie, with its soft knitted texture and unconventional width, captures the exact moment when 1970s counterculture began infiltrating the boardroom—trading silk's corporate sheen for alpaca's earthy irregularity. The striped shirt beside it, with its directional play of navy lines that shift and converge like op-art, represents the same era's rejection of buttoned-up conformity, even in something as basic as business dress.