13 August 14

If you are left-handed, or if you know someone who is, you should celebrate International Left Handers' Day today! Hoping to take a different "slant" on the theme, I chose this tie among the "minority" of my diagonal stripes (slanting sinisterly down to the left, like the forward slash keystroke). It turns out that there is no rhyme or reason to which way stripes are slanted on neckties, despite some myths about the history of military-regimental regalia.