Tie, bow tie

Bow tie with a purple, blue and black abstract print and some paisley motifs from Turnbull & Asser. There is an elasticated fastening at the back.
Turnbull & Asser is a Jermyn Street shirt maker and tailor established in 1885.
The donor, Peter Viti was born in Bloomsbury in 1936. He attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts, then entered into a partnership making costumes and props. He eventually went into the family business of letting property. Viti calls himself ‘a bit of a dandy’. He purchased clothing from the boutiques which revolutionised men’s fashion in the 1960s. Viti recalls the London gay scene both before and after the legalisation of sex between consenting men in 1967, considering that things became a little easier for gay men as attitudes slowly changed.