The old school tie still has enormous power in many City companies. CIDI
As a result, it is hardly surprising that everything from Patches to the Daily Telegraph employs at least one rock correspondent, from a teenage school-leaver in doorstep Nikes and a back-to-front baseball cap to some affable dilettante with a plum in his mouth and old school tie. BNCB
Such a system, based on social class and the old school tie, had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place, and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s. BNCB