Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Top Secret
This tie is a texture-y affair of deep purple surmounted by startlingly white Swiss dots in a grid pattern. But instead of the polka dots giving it a lighthearted and happy ambiance, it imparts instead a briskness and cool efficiency. One thinks of blueprints or huge Department of Defense electronic maps, each continent holding pinpricks of white, barely blinking lights that signify, oh, maybe a nuclear warhead silo or a US military outpost or the presence of perhaps a dangerous dissident. Classified, you understand. Your eyes only.