Necktie sales may be skyrocketing in the UK, but it's a bad time for tie makers in the good ol' USA.
Many American men have stopped wearing ties, and now, even the tie guys are calling it quits. The Men's Dress Furnishing Association, the trade group for American tie manufacturers, have, um, become untied:
According to a recent Gallup Poll, the number of men who wore ties every day to work last year dropped to a record low of 6%, down from 10% in 2002. U.S. sales have plummeted to $677.7 million in the 12 months ending March 31, from their peak of $1.3 billion in 1995, according to market researcher NPD Group. Although sales are expected to get a bump around Father's Day, June 15, the future of neckties is very much in doubt.
Some members of the neckwear association sensed the trend two years ago when, at the group's annual luncheon in New York, a number of people turned up tieless. Marty Staff, chief executive of men's clothing company JA Apparel Corp., which has a big neckwear business, was one of them.
"It was deliberate," explains Mr. Staff, who says he wanted to make a statement to his colleagues. "Historically, the guy wearing the navy suit, the white shirt and the burgundy tie would be the CEO. Now he's the accountant," Mr. Staff explains.
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Comments (5)
cosmic rapture
I am saddened by this trend, however. I would very much like people to look less slovenly. I am reminded of the scene at the end of Martin Scorsese's "Casino," where droves of fat, t-shirt clad Mickey Mouse tourists are seen approaching the gates. I long for a return of classic style to rescue my delicate aesthetic sensibilities from the hideous land of tacky ying and bland, khaki yang that the US has become.
he wsa surely eating the insects around the body, but no way he "tore off larger pieces of flesh"
I'm from germany, and I did not hear that in our news so I searched the web for a german speaking version... and there seames to be none.
I tracked this info down to a british website of the questionable newspaper "The Sun":
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html
You can google the story in almost any language - except for german.
And everything you find bases on stories from UK.
is this a hoax made up by ALLAN HALL from The Sun? Or are german newspapers not interested in people eaten by spiders?
And: geckos don't feast on rotten bodies.
Sounds like those animals were kept in different tanks and that the heating elements exploded all at the same time? Doesn't sound logically.
It was reported on february 27th, 2004. You'll have to do a search on the archives for this one.