Necktie Headband

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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: someone wearing a necktie around the head as an improvised Hachimaki.

A trope often associated with salarymen and other corporate types whose business clothes come with a necktie. Sometimes they get overenthusiastic during an after-work party, or they get involved in Serious Business that justfies dropping the Dress Code.

Sister Trope to Lampshade-Wearing.


Examples of Necktie Headband include:


Anime and Manga

  • Oji "Gabriel" Tanaka does this when playing guitar in the early episodes of The Legend of Black Heaven. Later on, he just takes the tie off.
  • Vash the Stampede does this a couple times in both versions, when he gets down to some serious drinking. We never see the tie otherwise—he seems to only pull it out for this purpose.

Film

Live Action TV

Web Comic

Western Animation

  • An episode of Codename: Kids Next Door has Numbuh 1 teaming up with a former salaryman hunting a serpent-like tie monster whose Breath Weapon forcibly turns people into suit-wearing businessmen who slave away in corporate management. The man in question wears his former necktie as a headband and later goes on to become one of the few adults Numbuh 1 is trusting of/considers to be cool.

Real Life

  • At at least one factory in the US, labor union representatives wore their neckties on their heads to a meeting with Japanese executives overseeing the plant to show their willingness to stand for their positions.