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Corporate America, over the years, has drifted away from the suit and tie, whether necktie or bow tie, towards business casual. Unless you’re a lawyer, judge, in financial services and investment banking, or work for an old-fashioned corporation, you very likely are not wearing a tie to work every day. Unless I have face time with my customers, I do not wear a tie, although I have made a resolution to wear one more often. Psychologically, it reminds me of my important position in the company, which is actually the reason some companies still require it. Anyways, in my mind it’s crucial that when I wear a tie I make sure it provides peak performance. This is where the lucky tie comes in.
What makes a tie a lucky tie? It could be anything. Which tie did you wear for your last big account close (or, if you’re an attorney, won a big case)? Which tie did you wear the last time a girl at happy hour aggressively offered her number? Which tie did you wear the last time you won a gift card from your favorite radio station (shoutout to J Parks Caldwell)? What tie were you wearing when the Dow broke 20,000? But you can’t always put it on paper. Sometimes you just know. You know which tie you can wear that wins you the day regularly. However, like Dr. Turk’s lucky surgery do-rags, they can cycle. Some ties just go on a hot streak. It really just depends. That’s part of the fun.
For me, I remember the tie I was wearing when two existing customers dropped big opportunities right in my lap. It’s not that my red-with-blue-diamonds tie or my blue-and-gold striped tie were bad, those did well, too, but it was my black-and-blue striped tie that aligned the planets in my favor. Are they used car salesman-y? Yeah, probably, but they get results. Kind of like that guy no one really likes but he always gets his bonus.
The importance of the lucky tie is that every once in a while you need a guaranteed win, and once you discover which tie is your lucky tie, you know how to get yourself a much needed win. It’s the same reason Power Five college football teams have an FCS team on their schedule. But don’t overuse the lucky tie. It can lose its magic, or your lucky ties can rotate, and then you have a false prophet. An antichrist tie. The tie that screws up your car’s transmission or busts your water meter, leading to an $800 water bill. Don’t abuse the lucky tie, and it will treat you right, and clean it at your discretion. .
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@5OClockShadow_
I’ve got a lucky pair of socks. Never have gone to a job interview/wedding without them. 100% success rate at both, it’s the socks not me.
Even if you are business casual, you’re almost 80-90% full suit and tie. why not go the little extra and look like a baller 100% of the time?
I’m required to be in a full suit every day for my job. And you know what? I fucking love it.
Don’t you just feel better than other people?
I mean I feel like an asshole saying that but yes. But only to my competition. Those guys can suck my suited up dick.
I work for one of largest companies in the world, and we no longer are required to wear suits…or any sort of dress clothes. And I hate it. And envy you for your suit daily. So. Much. Keep fighting the good fight.
I personally agree with this. Look the part, represent your company well. However, some of my colleagues would say that it’s a hardo move
let the haters hate
Lol. What if your college team has lost to FCS schools, not just this season, but now two seasons in a row… Asking for a friend.
My go to is my lucky drawers. Like an angel on my shoulder/undercarriage. Nobody knows I’m about to kick ass but me.
They have a Busch Light logo on the front and “Beer Delivery Guy” on the back.
What does Lenny consider lucky?
It’s only used for big interviews and court of appeals arguments.
All about that baby blue Michael kors tie baby. Money all the way.
I go with lucky socks, J Crew Shark ones to let everyone know I am out for blood
I don’t have a lucky tie per se, but I have a tie/suit combo that gets me in the zone and brings a lotta good mojo. Without each other they don’t have quite the same effect, but that French blue suit and the royal blue tie with white polka dots is a show stopper
My lucky tie is the old invisible tie because nothing says closer like businesses causal.
Living in SC, bow ties close with the missus 100% of the time. That’s all I know.
I do have lucky pants. Superbly tailored by a short fella that speaks no English, but knows his way around a pair of trousers.
Good to know there is another SC person on here.