Black White Diagonal Striped Silk Necktie

These two ties capture the precise moment when menswear shifted from the louche, wide-lapeled 1970s into the sharp-shouldered 1980s power suit era. The cream tie's generous width and lustrous silk speaks to the decade when men borrowed a bit of peacock swagger from their wives' closets, while that regimental stripe represents the return to boardroom aggression—diagonal lines cutting across the chest like a businessman's battle sash.

These ties reveal how the 1970s and 1980s approached pattern with completely different philosophies. The earlier tie treats its navy field as a canvas for painterly geometric shapes in warm oranges and yellows—those irregular forms floating like abstract art you'd actually want to wear. A decade later, the black and white diagonal stripes march across the silk with military precision, turning pattern into pure graphic discipline.