at the bottom than at the top to ease the removal of the wrap ring 50 from the knot this allows easy removal of the tying aid device 10 after the loose knot is tied and aid 10 is removed it is a simple method to tighten the knot by pulling on the narrow end 16 the related method incorporating the tying aid 10 of the present invention provides for the following steps first a necktie is draped on the shoulders of a wearer with a wide end and a narrow roughly even fig1 a next the retractable length gauge of the present invention is held under the wearer 39 s chin and the bottom member extended to provide the proper length measurement fig1 b next the wide end of the tie is pulled down such that the desired knot location is even with the bottom of the gauge next the wide end of the tie is overlapped over the narrow end at chest level fig1 c and then the aid 10 is secured to the overlapping tie fig1 d such that the wide end 18 and narrow end 16 extend from behind the device 10 the tying aid 10 and the necktie will be held in place as the wide end 18 is wrapped around the aid 10 and then threaded down through the center next the aid 10 is disengaged by squeezing together the curved opposed members 22 24 and breaking apart the retention magnets 30 32 and the device 10 is extracted from the knot by pulling it out the bottom next the wearer tightens the loose knot and then adjusts the length by pulling.