Stephen Fry on his life in ties: 'It takes courage to dress so oddly'
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telegraph.co.uk#fryties began…Anyone can wear a tie. All you need is a neck, a shirt and a feel for colour.I am old enough to remember the time when the pavements of the City of London were populated by formidably formal figures perfectly arrayed in suit, collar and tie.
Men of all classes wore shirts with separate collars right up and into the 1960s. These were called ‘grandad shirts’ by those two generations below, who wore them without collars as amusing hand-me-downs.
Grandads themselves would only have been seen like that in their most relaxed moments. For work and Sunday best they would have affixed a collar (often heavily starched).
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