I read with genuine disappointment today that Tie Rack is about to vanish from the High Street. The brand is another retail casualty and follows many other previously high profile names into obscurity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25016032
To be honest, I haven’t bought anything from the shop for years and that’s despite having a ridiculously large selection of neck ties and cufflinks. Clearly I was not alone in buying my things ‘elsewhere’ and must therefore shoulder my share of the blame for the store’s demise.
In the last knockings of the eighties as I started my working career, Tie Rack was a fresh and fun alternative to Fosters and C&A (both these stores catered for my limited budget in the days before I could afford M&S and Next). Of course Fosters and C&A are long gone too, not that I mourn the passing of those businesses!
Over the four years that retail banking occupied my working hours, and polyester was eschewed in favour of silk, buying ties in Tie Rack was a bit of a treat. The range of colours and patterns were huge and you were bound to find something that would suit.
In the noughties (AKA the Frangi times), I remember buying a gruesome pair of seventies cufflinks and then having to hunt high and low for a tie that would complement. Where the prestige brands that adorn my person these days failed, Tie Rack stepped up. A grotty picture providing evidence is even attached – check out the combination of shirt, tie cufflinks and watch! Jack Regan would have approved!
The financial/commercial noose around the neck of Tie Rack has tightened and tightened to the point where life has been squeezed out of the brand and memories and the odd photo will shortly be all that’s left. Next time I buy a tie from anywhere; I’ll feel a little guilt and be penitent!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25016032
To be honest, I haven’t bought anything from the shop for years and that’s despite having a ridiculously large selection of neck ties and cufflinks. Clearly I was not alone in buying my things ‘elsewhere’ and must therefore shoulder my share of the blame for the store’s demise.
In the last knockings of the eighties as I started my working career, Tie Rack was a fresh and fun alternative to Fosters and C&A (both these stores catered for my limited budget in the days before I could afford M&S and Next). Of course Fosters and C&A are long gone too, not that I mourn the passing of those businesses!
Over the four years that retail banking occupied my working hours, and polyester was eschewed in favour of silk, buying ties in Tie Rack was a bit of a treat. The range of colours and patterns were huge and you were bound to find something that would suit.
In the noughties (AKA the Frangi times), I remember buying a gruesome pair of seventies cufflinks and then having to hunt high and low for a tie that would complement. Where the prestige brands that adorn my person these days failed, Tie Rack stepped up. A grotty picture providing evidence is even attached – check out the combination of shirt, tie cufflinks and watch! Jack Regan would have approved!
The financial/commercial noose around the neck of Tie Rack has tightened and tightened to the point where life has been squeezed out of the brand and memories and the odd photo will shortly be all that’s left. Next time I buy a tie from anywhere; I’ll feel a little guilt and be penitent!
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