Tying a
school boy tie

1. Button up your shirt all the way, including your collar. Flip up your collar and place the tie around your neck. You want the wide part of the tie to hang twice as low as the thin part, and it should hang on the side of your dominant hand.
2. Take the wide end of the tie, and wrap it around the thin part once, a little bit below your neck.
3. Once you wrap the wide end around the thin end, slip the wide end through the knot that has formed.
4. Tuck the long, wide end through the knot.
5. Pull on the thin end and the wide end, from below, to tighten the knot.
6. Hold the thin end with your non-dominant hand, and with your dominant hand, slide the knot up to your neck.

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