Old Farts And You Tarts

tie debates

in the Bundestag, a conflict has broken out, to be published in the media now dubbed "tie war" . Two deputies of the Left Party and the Greens, Alexander Süßmair and Sven-Christian Kindler, refuse to the recent Council of Elders the Bundestag decided jacket required. The Panel had decided that the secretary, the company next to the President of the Bundestag or one of its deputy court must appear in ties - if they are men. Süßmair Kindler and refused - and may now do not exercise their office as a secretary, because they are dressed inappropriately.

with left they can indeed talk about politics, not about style. If the red Parliament manager Dagmar Enkelmann now the tie as "the most superfluous garment in the world" attacks, because then all the old communist contempt for everything sounds superfluous, Over all flow through. Under communism, like him dream of such a pinched block Wait, there's no nice luxury, but only the strictly necessary to life - and what our subjects is necessary, of course, lays down the party.

what it should be so inhumane and dictatorial if one of deputies who hold a prominent role expected to classic formal dress, probably only the two deputies and their supporters in their respective parties. In France or England, where MPs do not have a feel for the dignity of their mandate (which has nothing to do with personal honor), such a debate would be unthinkable. The whole Posturing of the Left and the Green recalls fatal to adolescent refusals, in confirmation or in the theater (at the time of course) to wear a suit, as I have experienced in the seventies, and will also practiced.

Today, the rebellion against the run but far from the open doors tie one of an informal society. Even conservatives who have long been more rare tie. Very nicely illustrates that a photo I saw recently in the Times. It showed the writer Jan Fleischauer premiere of his work at the book "Under the Left on 11 May 2009, his publisher Alexander Fest (Rowohlt Verlag) and the IMAGE-letter writer Franz-Josef Wagner, a dinosaur of the right Boulevards. Fleischer was the only one who wore a tie.

The Erzbürger Fest (Son of the FAZ-head of literature and Hitler biographer Joachim C. Fest) and the old warhorse reactionary Wagner know that this piece of clothing in their circles is a bit out. Only Fleischhauer, a descendant of the left milieu that has joined a few years ago the Conservatives want - like all fresh converts - the rules of his new faith community meet. In contrast, incumbent Conservatives see it generally casual: In the editorial conferences of newspapers like "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" or "world" now bears almost no one a tie.

The tie today: a rebellious pop accessory

because conservatives are now no more often than conservatives, but as radicals, all the traditional state trash from subsidized theaters, over want to sweep away the privacy to social legislation. As a "conservative" they scoff at the left, are afraid of globalization, genetically modified food and nuclear power. Therefore give the neocons dynamically krawattenlos not buttoned up. Funnily enough, they look with their combination of suit and open shirt as accomplices of Ahmadinejad, with Islamists Ties as "Western" are frowned upon.

appears in the West even go to the tie the way of the hat. Abandoned by the conservatives gained the status of a hip accessories. Pete Doherty - yes even the already initiated the hat-revival - that has seen as one of the first. Just like his rock and rap star Snoop Dogg colleagues or Jack White he appears to like to tie. The television series "Mad Men" and its protagonist Don Draper also have some part in making the tie back to acceptable for pop culture-inspired younger intellectuals. Not coincidentally, the only among my Facebook friends, bearing on their profile photo a tie, the spokesman of a media arts festival and an editor who writes feuilleton about computer games and comics.

The tie may be so long again what it once was: The necklace it difficult to control fringe. The Croats, for whom it is named, were wild, bloodthirsty riders who spread wherever they appeared, at sedentary people and farmers fear and terror. Eventually, the Black Bloc is wearing ties.