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"white tie" is a distinct dress code involving a white bowtie. Outside of that, there's no real history of people wearing white neckwear. This is for a few reasons:
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It's very hard to dye silk white (or at least it was, historically). The bowtie in white tie is marcella cotton.
White shirts are the most common. A white necktie would have been hard to pair with most wardrobes, more likely to get dirty (you don't want to have to get your tie cleaned, it's a whole thing).
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(I tried posting this from kbin, but apparently lemmy.world defederated with them...)