as with anything you do in life...if you do it and you rock it, nobody is going to question it........at the end of the day, you aren't wearing a tie, you are wearing confidence....if you are going to shy away or take it off the second you get someone's negative comments, you might as well not start to begin with.......I hate it when I see people wearing the same wrinkled long tie in the old half windsor that they never untie just to "fit in the crowd" or seem "professional".....you gotta be confident and do it right, be it in a nicely tied bowtie or a pressed and freshly tied long tie, or no tie at all.....you just gotta own it and people will respect you for it.........