How to Tie a Tie

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The Windsor Half-Knot
The Windsor Knot
The Four-in-Hand Knot

The Windsor Half-Knot

Half-Windsor Knot

  1. Start with the wide end of the tie on your right. Extend it about 12 inches below the narrow end.
  2. Cross the wide end over the narrow, and turn back underneath.
  3. Bring the wide end up, and turn down through loop.
  4. Pass the wide end around to the front from your left to right.
  5. Bring the wide end up through the loop.
  6. Pull the wide end through the knot in front. Tighten and draw up to collar.

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The Windsor Knot

Windsor Knot

  1. Start with the wide end of the tie on your right. Extend it about 12 inches below the narrow end.
  2. Cross the wide end over the narrow, and bring it up through the loop.
  3. Bring the wide end down, around behind the narrow, and up on your right.
  4. Put this end down through the loop and across the narrow (as shown).
  5. Turn the wide end, and pass it through the loop.
  6. Complete the knot by slipping the wide end through the knot in front. Tighten and draw up to collar.

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The Four-in-Hand Knot

Four-in-Hand Knot

  1. Start with the wide end of the tie on your right. Extend it about 12 inches below the narrow end.
  2. Cross the wide end over the narrow, and back underneath.
  3. Continue by bringing the wide end around, passing it across the front of the narrow once more.
  4. Pass the wide end up through the loop.
  5. Holding the front of the knot loosely with index finger, pass the wide end down through the loop in front.
  6. Remove finger, and tighten knot. Carefully, draw up tight to collar, holding the narrow end and sliding the knot up snug.

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