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Steps to Tie a Tie

Put the tie around your neck with the thin side of the tie on your left and the thick side on your right.

Person wearing a tie

Have the front of the tie facing outward, with the tag facing you.

Pull the thick side down so the thin side ends by your chest at your third shirt button or higher.

Person holding a tie around their neck

Hold each side of the tie with one hand.

Move the thick side over thin. This step should make an X.

Person starting to tie a tie

Hold the spot where the two sides cross with the fingers of your right hand.

Person tying a tie

Wrap the thick side under by touching your armpit, and flip. The thick portion should be resting on your right fingers 

Person tying a tie

Person tying a tie

Person tying a tie

Keep holding the X with your right hand.

Tuck the thick side towards you and bring it up to touch the bottom of your chin.

Person tying a tie

Person tying a tie

Loop it through the big hole by your neck.

Person tying a tie

Point the arrow through the gap near your finger. Mind the gap.

Person tying a tie

To make knot tight, hold the thin side while pulling down the thick side.

Person tying a tie

To move the knot up towards your neck, slightly pull the thin side while pulling the knot up.

Person tying a tie

Congratulations you tied a tie.

Person wearing a tie