Robert Reich sees a sign that the pressure to wear a tie may soon fade away: Biden appeared in public with Obama and Bill Clinton, none of them wearing a tie.

It is not impossible; I've read that President Kennedy freed American men from the demand to wear hats by refusing to wear one himself. Thanks perhaps to him, no one has ever tried to pressure me to wear one.

Ironically, this winter I started wearing a hat sometimes, but I don't treat it as an obligation: I simply do what feels comfortable based on the weather.

As for ties, however, I reject them actively firmly.