Article: That necktie may make you a better worker

My guess is a good percentage of the males reading this column will spend part of today struggling against a necktie.

Struggling to breathe, to keep it cinched up, to keep the small flap in the back from sticking out awkwardly, and to avoid using the thing as a handkerchief when you feel the urge to sneeze.

And yet you probably will wear one to church, which makes you part of an apparently dying breed. If some recent opinion polls are correct, this may be the only day of the week you stand in front of a mirror and attempt a Windsor, or a simple four-in-hand, or whatever it was your father taught you years ago.

This was brought home to me last week by a Wall Street Journal report about the ...

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