National Bow Tie Day 2023: National Bow Tie Day, celebrated on August 28, is the only holiday honouring everyone’s favourite underrated accessory. It is the ideal day to don your favourite bow tie and parade it around town to demonstrate your elegant and refined demeanour. Even if you wear it with jeans, such a statement accessory will make you appear impeccable. Today, we celebrate these timeless fashion accessories and all the people who wear them routinely.
National Bow Tie Day 2023: HISTORY
Since the dawn of time, or at least since the nineteenth century, the bow tie has been a symbol of social and intellectual affluence. Whether you were of high social standing by inheritance or renowned in intellectual circles, the bow tie communicated this to the world.
Well, perhaps not quite that extreme. Since its humble beginnings, however, the bow tie has become a status symbol in many social circles. Interestingly, Croatian mercenaries wore the first bow ties during the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century. The soldiers required neckties resembling scarf loops. Taking a cue from this relatively obscure and provocative source, the French popularised the trend in Paris before it spread to the rest of the fashion-conscious world.
From that point forward, the bow tie would become an essential component of formal attire, particularly among medical and doctoral doctors. Eventually, the tie’s popularity would wane (pun intended) during World War II due to a lack of materials and people to create and wear them. However, it is no secret that the bow tie has survived among ballet-goers and James Bond antagonists. Today, bow ties are worn to both black-tie events and, paradoxically, by hipsters. National Bow Tie Day is thus a celebration of all the history and symbolism crammed into a single, flawless knot.
National Bow Tie Day 2023: ACTIVITIES
Learn how to tie a bow tie appropriately
No clip-ons or pre-tied ties are permitted here. On National Bow Tie Day, learn how to be a gentleman (or woman) who is responsible for their own bow tie… and those of their fellow partygoers.
Host a bow tie gathering.
Celebrate your favourite accessory with a celebration! You could have bow tie trivia, view old films featuring numerous bow ties, and eat bow tie pasta! Required bow tie for entry.
“Gramme it!”
If you didn’t take a photo for social media on National Bow Tie Day, did you even celebrate? Take an Instagram selfie with your bow tie, or post photos of you and your friends donning them to your stories.
FIVE OUTRAGEOUS FACTS ABOUT SILK
- Silk is produced from the cocoons of tens of thousands of silkworms, a labor-intensive procedure reserved for the most refined wearers.
- There is only one individual on Earth who knows how to perfect this perfect fabric, which is harvested and manufactured from clam fibres.
- Those who attempted to smuggle silkworms out of China were executed in ancient China.
- If you’re a mosquito magnet, try wearing silk one day; mosquitoes can’t seem to penetrate the fibres!
- In 130 B.C., the legendary Silk Road connected China to sections of Europe.
NATIONAL BOW TIE DAY DATES
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | August 28 | Monday |
| 2024 | August 28 | Wednesday |
| 2025 | August 28 | Thursday |
| 2026 | August 28 | Friday |
| 2027 | August 28 | Saturday |
