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Necktie Headband

Exactly What It Says on the Tin: someone wearing a necktie around the head as an improvised Martial Arts Headband.

A trope often associated with salarymen and other corporate types whose business clothes come with a necktie. Sometimes they get overenthusiastic during an after-work party, or they get involved in Serious Business that justfies dropping the Dress Code.

Oji "Gabriel" Tanaka does this when playing guitar in the early episodes of The Legend Of Black Heaven. Later on, he just takes the tie off.
Vash the Stampede does this a couple times in both versions, when he gets down to some serious drinking. We never see the tie otherwise—he seems to only pull it out for this purpose.

Done by some of the clerks when they turn pirate in The Crimson Permanent Assurance short that accompanies Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Tommy Wiseau's movie The Room.
Abby in Planet Terror
Shawn in Shawn of the Dead does this (to cover a dart wound).

My Name Is Earl: Randy unties Earl's tie (which Earl doesn't know how to retie) in order to show Earl what he would look like as an eighties guy at a rock concert.
Will does this on the first day at his upper class school in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air arguing that while the dress code specifies a tie in a half-winsor knot, it doesn't say where he has to wear it.
In a fifth season episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby ends up with a tie wrapped around his head during a quick montage of a drinking game.
In Doctor Who, the Tenth Doctor dons his necktie as a headband after partying with 18th century French aristocrats. Of course, since it's the Doctor, it's all part of his plan to make the bad guys underestimate him.

An episode of Codename: Kids Next Door has Numbuh 1 teaming up with a former salaryman hunting a serpent-like tie monster whose breath forcibly turns people into suit-wearing businessmen who slave away in corporate management. The man in question wears his former necktie as a headband and later goes on to become one of the few adults Numbuh 1 is trusting of/considers to be cool.

At at least one factory in the US, labor union representatives wore their neckties on their heads to a meeting with Japanese executives overseeing the plant to show their willingness to stand for their positions.