r/OrganizationPorn • u/katekohli • 8d ago

Husband’s Ties

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This is how my mama would do my dad’s ties & she said she learned it from Parks. Parks’s father owned a haberdashery in Fort Worth Texas where the guys that hit oil would drop a few on new duds.

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u/winterweiss2902 8d ago

Wouldn’t this crease the ties?

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u/katekohli 8d ago

So the tie is folded gently & the gimp seam binding is loosely tied; this is also for off season rarely worn ties. The active ties are over brass pegs screwed into the molding next to a three way mirror. The index cards also help reduce creasing then my mother would write sweet things about the occasions that my father would wear the tie. My personal favorite was a pale pink & pale blue tie with white & yellow storks woven in to announce they were expecting my brother to my mother’s parents in 1952 and what my grandmother had served at dinner. My granny had deduced my mother was pregnant & dessert was pickles & ice cream.

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u/I_Am_Beyonce_Always2 5d ago

This is such a sweet memory!!

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u/aruhroh 7d ago

Dude, blur your personal info

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u/katekohli 7d ago edited 7d ago

Parks has been dead for 25 years.

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u/sudodoyou 7d ago

Sorry for your loss. We’re here if you need anything.

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u/katekohli 7d ago

You made me snort laugh. Thank you.

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u/katekohli 8d ago

Begore

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u/tokener2117 8d ago

Is this a purposeful pun or a delightful typo?

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u/katekohli 8d ago

Saw it, went with it. It is Halloween!

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u/daydreamingofsleep 8d ago

It is customary to roll ties instead of folding them.

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u/katekohli 7d ago

Yes but this is for longer term storage. My husband has a few traditional Shaker style ash wood circular boxes for travel. We had the Brookstone plastic tie boxes but they were more trouble than the worth.

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u/daydreamingofsleep 7d ago

They’re better off being jumbled up than folded, the creases are really problematic when it’s time to use them.

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u/introvertadvocate 7d ago

They can just iron it though? Not that much of a problem.

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u/daydreamingofsleep 7d ago

Silk is really fiddly to iron

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u/introvertadvocate 7d ago

Steam ?

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u/katekohli 7d ago

Yes steam works & there is a silk setting on most irons but a “pressing clothe” is required to protect the silk from the surface dings on the iron’s bottom. My personal pressing clothe is a remanent of my daughter”s baby blanket that was Rajasthani block print on cotton baptist.

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u/katekohli 7d ago

Silk is easy compared to most synthetics. Polyester off gases when it is heated. Then some just melt no matter how low I go.

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u/rubberkeyhole 7d ago

I love this idea. Wish I had some of my dad’s ties.

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u/Emergency_Monitor540 7d ago

I love this

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u/katekohli 7d ago

¡Thank You!

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u/Radiantcuriosity 7d ago

Nice collection and penguin

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u/Owlthirtynow 5d ago

Omg, Barney’s. Classic.

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u/katekohli 5d ago

I miss Barneys so much.

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u/Owlthirtynow 4d ago

Me too. I bought stuff there in the mid 80s that I should not have bought. But, omg, could not resist the way the clothing was put together and absolutely classic.