Three Strategies and Twelve Tie Variations for a Job Interview

We all know that we only get one chance to make a good first impression .

Now, the job interview is par excellence the moment when the impression one produces is decisive , capital, categorical.

We cannot claim to be simply "ourselves" there because the asymmetry of the situation requires us to respond to particular expectations.

And, let's face it, the job interview today is a very ambiguous situation in terms of dress codes.

To speak only of professional settings where a tie and suit are prerequisites, being elegant without risking being too well-dressed is a real sartorial challenge.

Indeed, managing to show your mastery of dress codes while remaining in your place is not easy: suffice to say that you have to impose your confidence without it falling into arrogance...

In this context, let's set the constraints for selecting a tie: blue suit, white (or sky blue) shirt, white (or sky blue) pocket square folded into a square.

The possible sadness of the plain will find its parade in the texture. A silk grenadine will definitely suit, the texture attenuating the shine of the silk while showing a form of subtle refinement .

In short, you are elegant, but it is not obvious. Or rather, only a knowledgeable person will notice it (and will notice your subtlety). Otherwise, it will pass for a neutral but neat and flawless outfit.

Don't forget to avoid: shiny polyester ties, pink, turquoise, red or sky blue.

This is not pretty at all.

Harmony of blues

Given the sobriety of the whole , the tie can stand out slightly if it follows a rule : suggest seriousness and not fantasy.

This obviously excludes Mickey Mouse motifs, pin-ups, or overly bold colors.

A blue tie? Sure. But we don’t want to risk monochrome monotony or giving a funeral effect…

Here are various solutions.

A tie at tartan pattern but very dark in order to tone down its dandyism

A blend of linen and wool with a herringbone pattern : tone but without any eccentricity…

THE institutional seriousness of the club tie in its dark version with the very particular texture of shantung

A blend of blue linen and wool to leave the texture express a originality which will only be perceptible to the connoisseur

Woven silk with relief and pattern Prince of Wales in dark and sober tones

The silk woven with discreet white dots, terribly business and perfectly original by the complexity of the pattern

The gray contrast

With a blue suit, the gray tie offers a marked contrast while remaining in the chromatic range of the most unsuspected respectability!

Then it is enough to decline it the boldness of texture and motive in a very way measured .

A Prince of Wales pattern : sober and worked at the same time, it will speak to man elegant and will go unnoticed by the layman

A three-color woven silk, full of relief but with a plain effect : a kind of smart business spirit

A prominent but sober flannel tie in countless shades of gray which fascinates us as everyone knows since a novel counted around fifty of them

THE square patterns whose geometry can pass for the testimony of a orderly temperament to the point of obsession!

The striped contrast

The institutional symbolism of the so-called tie "club" Or "regimental" has long given the stripe a look of serious despite the variety of colors and thickness stripes.

This is how we can afford blockstripes which, despite their massive presence, remain in the order of chic business.

Provided the rest of the set is united , the club tie will impose itself majestically, with a elegance likely to make you stand out almost by retinal persistence!

In shades of gray and brown, the seven-ply woven silk is a model of vigorous and totally sober visuals.

With a intense refinement hiding in the frank sobriety of colors recognized as compatible with the professional concentration , the blue and brown seven-ply will also work wonders

In short, the professional constraints do not prevent themselves from to please , with a subtlety bordering on the imperceptible — what constitutes, ultimately, a healthy approach to elegance …

I invite you to discover them by clicking on the products you like and combining them with beautiful shirts from our collection.

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