All Great Men go through a bowtie era in their development.

Bowties are cool. Like a Jayne Cobb Hat. It’s PRACTICAL —
If you work in a job where you’re required to dress smartly and expected wear a shirt with a collar, you don’t want to do up that top button, because it’s very restrictive, feels like you’re being choked quite often — you get literally hot under the collar.

You need a piece of fabric to tie in a knot, holding the two front tips of your shirt-collar together, loosely — and with a quick pull-release. Like Dean Martin. Something that ISN’T a great, big cloth arrow/noose pointing at your p**is.

And besides — Man walks down the street wearin’ that tie, people know he's not afraid of ANYTHING..