Brings back some old memories, as I remember the 1950's. If you were born after 1960, you won't recall the frequent use of neck ties. I wore a tie and suit to high school in the 1950's. Golfers wore ties in the 1920's and 1930's. Worked as a movie extra(spectator and golf official), for a golf movie of that time and wore knickers(pants to the knees) long socks, neck tie, sports coat and peaked hat. Felt I was in that era after a day.
Army soldiers in WWII wore ties in combat. General Patton fined soldiers if he caught them not wearing their helmet or their tie.
Remember an old American League manager who wore a suit and tie in the dugout. Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Saw him in person, when around the age of eight.
Bus drivers, truck drivers, service station workers and many workers wore bow ties or regular ties to work. It was a status symbol showing that they weren't perhaps "ditch diggers."
This week I saw a picture of workers at a Cotton Mills annual barbecue in Georgia, some 75 years ago. Most of the workers were wearing dress shirts, neck ties, and long aprons.
In fact I remember an "old timer" took me to a Chicago bar and restaurant in the mid 1960's. The bartenders wore ties and had the same long white apron. Women were not allowed on the premise. The older fellow company employee pointed out the nearby garage, where the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened.
And then I remember wearing a black bowtie, working as a waiter at a Pennsylvania hotel.
Ties were once very common.