grandpa's givenchy

So one of the last times I was at my brother's (my grandparent's old house) and handed me a ziplock bag of my grandpa's old ties that he had found in the back of one of the closets. Such a gift! I'm forced to wear one daily to work, where he can wear shorts but is now on a 3 month PAID break called summer. Teachers; I tell you! Anyway, the whole thing was funny since I'd never Grandpa T ever wear at tie... well, maybe once or twice when he was forced to for a family portrait. I think he had sport coat, maybe? He grewing up po' in Hawaii making 10 cents a week as a construction worker... and from the stories, a bad-ass one at that. (I believe he was best known on the construction site for a short temper, dropping the F-bomb and a knock-out, right-hook) I didn't think he ever owned a tie.

My guess is that the ties are from mid-sixties since they were all "skinny" ish with a-symmetrical striped patterns (so Mad Men! see "loves" once the show starts up again) or in plaids. Like the ones that were so just in the last fall (there was one that was gray wool with a black plaid ala Burberry or like the J. Crew one that I totally just bought last November!). Some of the ties even had tags on them that ranging in price from $2.50 to $11.00 from stores that are sadly no longer in existence. So nostalgic! So fantastic!

One of the treasures in the bag was this burgundy Givenchy. Which I assume is real and is totally Decades-worthy-vintage! (right?) I hope I'm doing it justice as I sit at my computer all day in my office with no windows located between the pizza stand in the mall food court and the bathroom. But either way, I love wearing it since I feel like I'm totally channeling Don Draper and my Grandpa - and that's one bad-ass-Mad-man!