There may be a generation gap here…my adult son feels like a buttoned shirt collar, much less a tie, is like being garroted. But when I was a youngster, occasions when kids were expected to wear ties were more common, and men wore ties in all sorts of circumstances that now qualify as “dress casual”. So it was simply expected, and you learned how to do it, even to be comfortable in it, without really thinking twice..You young’uns today have it easy! :)
There may be a generation gap here…my adult son feels like a buttoned shirt collar, much less a tie, is like being garroted. But when I was a youngster, occasions when kids were expected to wear ties were more common, and men wore ties in all sorts of circumstances that now qualify as “dress casual”. So it was simply expected, and you learned how to do it, even to be comfortable in it, without really thinking twice..You young’uns today have it easy! :)