Club ties are marked by a solid or striped background with an emblem woven on top. (Think crests, shields, flags, cricket bats — that kind of thing.) They once signaled membership in, you guessed it, a club or community. Nowadays, they're mostly symbolic — though this tie is a great way to let people know that you're up for a game of table tennis. It's hand-rolled in Ireland in our forever-go-to 8cm width: not too skinny, not too fat, and designed to sit in perfect harmony with both the lapel of our jackets and the length of our shirt collars.