A SIGN OF OUR TIMES: OLD IS NEW

After a few generations of aiming towards exaggerated convenience in most every area of life, recently we have witnessed a hunger for handcrafted items. We have grown fatigued with all of the computer and machine generated merchandise. Herbs and natural remedies often are favored in place of chemically produced drugs. Handwritten notes are more valued than the common email.  And, a taste for meticulous custom-clothing has caused a case of amnesia when trying to remember the need for a shopping trip to the mall.
Today, the celebrated necktie has seen a specific revival in the house of Passaggio Cravatte, founded in 2010 by Gianni Cerutti and Marta Passaggio. The shop is located in Robbio, Italy (near Milan and the Malpensa airport) and uses the rare practice of hand cutting the entire necktie from a single piece of fabric, followed by carefully hand stitching  and meticulously hand-folding the tie using a seven-fold method from the early 1900s to produce a newly made vintage piece.  Even the fabric is taken from 90 percent real vintage cloth and is hand printed with patterns that are virtually unobtainable.

The result?  Nothing short of magnificent.  While a Sulka tie can be an amazing find, Passagio now provides a way of experiencing firsthand the traditional necktie’s original construction-simply because of a dream transposed into reality by two determined Italians to return to the tried and true method of producing a work of art that can be selected, cut and sewn on demand.

THE NECKTIE: NOT TO BE FEARED
And so, whether you resent having to dress for an occasion or find pleasure in doing so, we must admit that the necktie is a wondrous opportunity for a man to express himself in a way that makes people take notice.  The necktie can give a man the chance to portray power or humility, seriousness or humor, status or convention.  If more men looked at the tie as a tool for self-expression (and we know how the male species loves tools), then maybe we can accelerate even further this era of a return to style.

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