Old School Ties

Is your school tie here?
Most Public schools that still honour the formal tie are featured here. Remind yourself of you old school colours.

How often do you wear it?
Why not boast about your education for a change. The "reserved and modest" Englishman may once have been one of our more subtle strengths, but in this increasingly combative world, maybe a touch of "if you've got it, flaunt it" now wouldn't go amiss.

Do you need to replace it?
Perhaps your old school tie has a few too many gravy or ink stains to do you full justice at school reunions or dinners.

Who else wears one?
Find out which famous personalities you shared an ink-spotted text book, or pencil sharpener with.


How many Victoria Crosses were awarded to your school?
Do you really know how brave your schoolmates were? It wasn't just the playing fields of Eton that forged the best and bravest of our land; it was the corridors, the classrooms and the studies of Harrow, Wellington, Clifton and dozens of other modest schools, which won for Britain its much vaunted epithet of "Great".

Be proud to have been educated in Great Britain; it's one of the few areas of excellence where we still lead the world.