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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