The R.A.F. has a tie of its own, and so
I think do the Navy and the R.N.V.R. It was therefore perhaps illogical of me to feel a slight qualm of misgiving on hearing a rumour that Mr. Sidney Rogerson, the new Director of Public Relations at the War Office, was toying with the idea of evolving an Army tie. Asked whether there was any truth in this rumour his Directorate, statesmanlike but slightly evasive, replied : " If such a proposal were made, it would be for the Dress Commit- tee to decide whether such a tie were necessary.and what form it should take if it were." An Army tie obviously isn't necess- ary The point is, is it desirable ? That question can only be answered by answering the further question : Would anybody ever wear it ? I should have thought almost nobody would. Every regiment or corps (with the possible exception of the Army Catering Corps, for whom many of us would be only too glad to design one) has a tie of its own already, and there are even such things as divisional ties. A soldier in mufti is proud (or anyhow content) to be seen wearing his regimental tie. Is he ever going to put on, in preference, a tie which can be worn by all sorts of units whom he unjustly but fiercely despises ? I doubt it.
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