a fresh look

This one's thanks to Ariel Davis, a savvy Value Village shopper with a keen eye for tacky.

shadow and substance

tacky tie: Veterans Day edition

Thursday's banderole flies for freedom.

a money tie for 80s Day

Why not? It was the Decade of Greed.

paisley goes with nothing

Paisley just wasn't enough for Britannia's designers, who had to place the pattern on a fish-scale background (think brook trout). Those swaths of bright color aren't a trick of the light through the blinds. They're woven in.

Purchase the title tome, a male's guide to fashion, here.

polyester and polka dots

Best of all, it matches.

still life with tacky tie

So vibrant and vivid in the classroom, so limp and lifeless on a plastic hanger.