Next door, Brooks Brothers was selling shirts for $42 and ties for $24 with any second item half-price.

A guy walks into a shop that sells ties.

He sold ties out of a suitcase in Times Square.

We're selling 50 percent fewer ties than three years ago.

She also sells hand-painted men's shirts and ties designed by a friend, Ronald Jackson.

This promotion - we don't want to knock another trade association - may or may not sell ties.

Consider the way a tie salesman sells ties.

"Our shirts are designed to be worn with ties," he said, adding that the company also sold ties.

IT is a tricky business, this matter of selling ties around the world.

"Someone once told me they sell more Hermès ties than any store in America," he said.