An Engineering Eye for the Tie Buying Guy

At the Mayo Clinic, patients always come first.  In my few days of volunteering, I picked up on some subtle ways that the culture supports patient-centric values.  Office areas are very utilitarian while patient care areas are well furnished and decorated.  Everyone is professionally dressed, regardless of their role.  For me, that means wearing a tie every day (and retiring my Dr. Martens).  Over the past 20 years, I ' ve worn engineered black clothing in my travels around the world.  I ' ve not worn a tie and long ago donated all the ties from my youth.  Admittedly, I do have a Harvard bowtie that I wore once for a meeting in a members only club that required a tie.  So how does a person buy an appropriate tie in 2020?  Thick or thin, solid or textured, bright or subtle colors?  It turns out there is an engineering answer.  Here ' s agreat overview  that helped me.The width of a tie to buy in 2020 is a function of body size, lapel width and shirt collars. I ' m 6 ' 2 " with a body mass index of 22.   I ' m approaching 60 years old with measurements of 42 " chest, 33 " waist, 34 " inseam.   That places me in the slim/tall category but not the athletic build category.In 2008, I wrote thispost about designing clothingbased on the human three dimensional shape and the basics of materials science.  The lapels of all my current suits are 2 in...
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