School Ties
By Finlo Rohrer
BBC News Magazine
As schools go back after the summer break they are being driven to adopting clip-on ties. Why? Because of a wave of youthful rebellion that is seeing some very oddly-tied ties in the playground.
Something has happened to the humble school tie over the last few years.
No-one can be precisely sure when the process started - it may even have been decades ago - but it's clear that it's reached crisis point.
The British school tie has gone rogue.
Instead of the neatly tied four-in-hand, or even a slightly plumptious Windsor, tens of thousands of teenagers, and even younger children, are sporting a cornucopia of weird knots.
