#jack's ties

After visualizing Jack’s ties by season, by number of episodes and by wardrobe mixups, we finally arrive at the (probably) final entry of this tie-focused series of posts. Today, let’s check a tie-wise overview of each episode of the series.

Each graph shows the ties worn in each episode, ordered by screen appearance, from bottom to top. There is a very strong correlation between the number of different outfits Jack wears with the number of days of each investigation, so these graphs can also show us the span of time of each episode.

Again, huge thanks to @foxspirit1928​ for the posts showing each tie worn per episode!! And if you are confused about the names of each tie, please check my other post.

Season 1

Notice how in The Green Mill Murder (S1E3) and Death at Victoria Dock (S1E4) Jack wears the exact same ties in the same order. I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe in coincidences. 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂 𝔁-𝓯𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶𝓮

The “Beige Tie” appears quite frequently in the final scenes of the show, while the “Striped Tie” seems to be more commonly used in the middle of the episode. It’s also interesting to note that in the last episode of the season Jack uses the same tie twice, although in different suits. This only ever happens again in continuity errors (which I chose not to show in these graphs as it would disrupt the visualization, but if you are interested you can check them here ).

Season 2

We can clearly see how in season 2 Jack seems to start the investigation in darker blue ties and end the episode (usually in Phryne’s parlour) in his “Maroon Tie” or “Beige Tie”. One exception is the golden tie he wears in Dead Air (S2E11), when he is undercover. He also wears a special tie during his time on the 𝔪𝔲𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔰 ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔪𝔞𝔰 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔩 𝔢𝔭𝔦𝔰𝔬𝔡𝔢 (S2E13) and a very random tie on Blood of Juana the Mad (S2E8) that never appeared again.

Season 3

In season 3 we have a strong prevalence of blue and a great variety in styles, with many new ties being introduced. It’s interesting to note that, after the first episode where the “Rather Nice Tie” is introduced and Phryne mentions how much she likes it, Jack is only seen using it in the final scenes of the show, usually private moments with her.

Have you ever wondered how many times Jack has worn each tie? Which tie is worn the most? In what order? Necktie continuity errors? If the answer to those questions is NO, AND WHY WOULD YOU?, that’s expected. But if you do find it at least slightly interesting, I will be showing some of this data in this and future posts.

Huge thanks to @foxspirit1928​​ for the posts showing photos of each tie worn per episode, I was halfway through checking each episode when I found your posts, they were very useful, thank you!!

And the winner of the most worn tie contest is.......!

Yes, the “Diamond Striped Tie”, or whatever you like to call it, being worn 20 times in total! Tied in second place we have the “Diamond Tie” and “Beige Tie” with 16 and the “Feathers Tie” (my personal favorite) with 15 in third place. (Yes, I named all the ties, and some of them have awful arbitrary names, but I had to, so don’t judge me) 

Let’s check the complete results:

Look at that beautiful curve. Naturally, we can see common ties to all seasons on the left of the graph and ties that are worn in only one episode of the show on the right. There are a few exceptions, such as the “Beige Tie” that, although it does not appear in season 3, still managed to reach second place. Also the “Rhombus Filled Tie”, even though is worn in all seasons, has a much lower appearance than expected.

Season 1

The “Beige Tie” wins as the most worn tie in season 1, closely followed by the “Diamond Striped Tie”. Apart from the bow tie shown in Ruddy Gore, all other neckties in season 1 are common appearances throughout the series.

Season 2

Our champion tie is also the most worn when considering only season 2, closely followed by four of the commonly used ties. The “Striped Tie”, although more popular in other seasons, does not appear that often in season 2. This season shows a greater variety in terms of colors, especially regarding ties exclusive to one episode.

Season 3

In season 3 we can see that the usage of each necktie is much better distributed than in previous seasons and there is a much stronger use of blue ties as well. And, of course, Phryne’s favorite tie is the one that he wears the most during the season (:

Jack Robinson’s Rather Nice Ties 

Simplified version of all 16 of Jack’ neckties I made, showing each texture. In this Venn diagram we can see in which season each tie appeared, in order. 

Two neckties are exclusive to season 1 and 2 while there are 5 ties that are shared through all seasons. 

All ties that only appear in season 1 or only appear in season 2 are exclusive to a single episode. 

Even though season 3 has the lowest number of episodes, it has the highest number of exclusive ties while also showing most of the recurring ones. 

In season 3, only the brown tie is shown in only one episode of the show, while the remaining new ties appear in at least two episodes.