The third photo, Julian, the tie is tied too long and tie clip is too low. The tie tip should met the belt not exceed it. A tie clip should be worn between the third and fourth buttons of your dress shirt, ensuring it secures both the tie and the shirt placket. It is best positioned so that it is visible above the top button of your jacket if you are wearing one. I hope the article below helps. https://bespokeunit.com/suits/ties/tie-clips/how-to-wear/

@Julian T Your father and forefather liked repp and striped ties.

@Julian T Julian! Good to see you, sir.

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@Jacques Therrien Fellow interlocutor Jacques, Your willingness to speak candidly about the long-term health of the Society is noted, and that spirit of thoughtful engagement is not only welcome here—it is necessary for any institution that intends to mature rather than merely exist. Let me be equally clear on two points so there is no ambiguity. First, constructive criticism—offered in good faith and directed toward the strengthening of our shared standards, culture, and future—is both appropriate and encouraged in the open forum. A Society that cannot examine itself cannot improve. Second, there is a principled and non-negotiable distinction between: - discussion of ideas, rules, structures, and the general direction of the Society, which properly belong in the public square, and - matters that pertain to a specific individual’s conduct, correction, or past or present administrative action. The latter are handled privately—not to suppress truth, but to preserve dignity, fairness, and the integrity of the process for everyone involved. No honorable institution conducts personnel or disciplinary matters in public, and we will not do so here. Private dialogue, in that context, is not concealment; it is respect & dignity. So to be explicit: Open, good-faith discussion about our code, our standards, and our future is welcome in the forum. Reference to private conversations, individual corrective matters, or disciplinary history is addressed through the appropriate private channel. That distinction protects every member equally. I appreciate your continued engagement and your stated commitment to growth. When we keep both candor and courtesy in proper balance, the Society is strengthened.

Hate is not merely a word. It is a misdirection of the will. We often trivialize it: I hate winter, I hate traffic, I hate Mondays. In such cases, the word is only shorthand for discomfort or preference. But when directed toward persons, groups, or even ideas, hate becomes something far more consequential. It is no longer descriptive. It becomes formative. Hate does not begin as violence. It begins as a narrowing of perception. It is the moment when we cease to see the other as a full bearer of being and instead reduce them to a single trait, action, or category. At that moment, the imagination collapses, and with it, our capacity for charity, nuance, and restraint. The person becomes an object; the mind rehearses justification; the will prepares permission. In this way, hate is parasitic on something originally good: our capacity for judgment. We are meant to discern what is harmful, unjust, or false. But when discernment loses proportion and humility, it hardens into condemnation, and condemnation calcifies into hate. The corruption is inward. What makes hate especially dangerous is that it feels morally clarifying. It gives the illusion of righteousness, of certainty, of standing on firm ground. One feels justified, even virtuous, while internally eroding the very faculties that make virtue possible. In my own experience, hate did not appear as rage. It appeared as quiet contempt. A subtle withdrawal of goodwill. A refusal to grant the other the benefit of complexity. It was easy to hide, easy to rationalize, and difficult to uproot because it disguised itself as “being right.” The antidote, I have found, is not sentimentality, nor forced positivity, but the deliberate discipline of remembering that every person is more than the worst thing they have done, more than the most frustrating thing about them, and more than my present emotional reaction to them. To hate winter is mere preference. To hate a person is a failure of vision. And perhaps the gentleman’s task is to guard his vision carefully.

@Jacques Therrien Thank you, Jacques. Feel free, sir, as a fellow an interlocutor, I'm glad it resonated.