Use the help of a mirror to assist you in tying your tie. You'll need a mirror to measure whether the tie

Step 1

Button up your shirt all the way, including your collar. Flip up your collar and place the tie around your neck. You want the wide part of the tie to hang twice as low as the thin part, and it should hang on the side of your dominant hand -- depending on whether you're right or left-handed.

Step 2

Take the wide end of the tie, and wrap it around the thin part once, a little bit below your neck. Think of the wide part as the longer part -- so the long end goes around the short end once.

Step 3

>Once you wrap the wide end around the thin end, slip the wide end through the knot that has formed.

Step 4

Tuck the long, wide end through the knot.

Step 5

Pull on the thin end and the wide end, from below, to tighten the knot.

Step 6

Hold the thin end with your non-dominant hand, and with your dominant hand, slide the knot up to your neck -- be careful not to choke yourself in the process.

The wide end should hang lower than the thin end, covering the thin end. You don't want the wide end to hang too low; a good rule of thumb for measuring a tie's proper length is making sure the bottom tip of your tie touches the upper part of your belt (or your pants if you are wearing suspenders). Although this is the traditional length, it varies from country to country.

Put your collar back down, and use the mirror to check if the tie and the knot look right.

When removing your tie, don't pull the thin end through the knot to untie the tie. Remove the tie by doing these steps backwards, even if you're in an extreme hurry to get undressed because you have company -- doing so will ruin the shape of the tie.

Until next time, don't get all tied up in knots -- with practice you should get the hang of it.