How to Tie a Full Windsor Knot

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Mark Breaux, I've been working in men's tailored clothing for about twenty-five years now, and I'm going to demonstrate how to tie a full Windsor knot. This tie is a fairly full knot, a little wider at the top of the knot, it gives you a full presentation, it works very well with a spread collar or a cutaway collar. It also performs very nicely on just a straight point collar such as I'm wearing. First off what you want to do, start out, gauge your length of your tie, and that just takes some practice, you cross the tie over, then the way you want to do this, the way you want to look at it is you want to wrap this part of your tie around both legs of this neck, or that goes around your neck. First you go up through so it's wrapped around that one, and then you push it around the back, keep the seam formatted towards the knot, and then you pull that a little snug and then you go around that leg. Then you pull it off back through that side and it forms a small triangle there, that gives you your base of your knot, then you cross over the face, up through the neck, and then down through the face. And you just pull that down until it gets snug. Also the face the tie is going to want to run up above the knot, what you have to do is you have to take and pull that down, sometimes you have to push on the bottom of the knot to get it rotated and get it dressed correctly so it's uniform. Then you put the dimple in the knot, and then you just tighten it up, and there you have your full Windsor."