It’s very hard to dye silk white (or at least it was, historically). The bowtie in white tie is marcella cotton.
White shirts are the most common. A white necktie would have been hard to pair with most wardrobes, more likely to get dirty (you don’t want to have to get your tie cleaned, it’s a whole thing).
People generally like to layer darker layers over lighter layers. It’s not, as the other user suggested, a “rule,” it’s just a good approach to layering different colors. You put on a shirt, then a tie, then a jacket—white, color, dark—and it’ll probably work. The other way around doesn’t work nearly as consistently.
(I tried posting this from kbin, but apparently lemmy.world defederated with them…)
@Jilanico
It’s very hard to dye silk white (or at least it was, historically). The bowtie in white tie is marcella cotton.
White shirts are the most common. A white necktie would have been hard to pair with most wardrobes, more likely to get dirty (you don’t want to have to get your tie cleaned, it’s a whole thing).
@Jilanico
(I tried posting this from kbin, but apparently lemmy.world defederated with them…)