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a tiny dagger for your tie, quietly insisting you've got things together.
means A small ornamental pin or clip worn through a necktie to hold it neatly against the shirt.
from A plain compound of "tie" and "pin," both old English-rooted words. "Tie" comes from Old English "tēag," something that binds, while "pin" descends from Old English "pinn," a peg or bolt (possibly a cousin of Latin "pinna," a feather or point). The garment-fastening sense bloomed in the 19th century, when the modern necktie became standard menswear and needed taming — the tiepin and its relative the tie clip arriving to keep silk from wandering.
- job
- Stops ties swinging into soup and machinery
- origin
- Victorian gentlemen flaunted them with jeweled heads
- clip cousin
- The tie bar replaced it for the timid
- placement
- Sits between third and fourth shirt buttons
- hidden edge
- Some doubled as concealed lapel weapons historically
for instance
cartier panther tiepin — iconic art deco design worn by maharajas and royalty since the 1920s