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title: "“The oldest, most worn-out joke is still the tie itself”"
date: 2023-04-06
last_modified: 2025-02-25T16:47:25+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-10T17:51:49Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/the-oldest-most-worn-out-joke-is-still-the-tie-itself-elizabeth-price-2023-context-en/"
description: "Changes in the world of work and society are heralded in an almost invisible way in the fabric of material culture. Following precisely these traces is a specialty of Elizabeth Price – as she demonstrates with the example of the tie."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/3Header_SCHIRN_ElizabethPrice_Portrait_EK-149.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# “The oldest, most worn-out joke is still the tie itself”