[Charles Dana]

You don’t need fashion advice; you need relationship advice.

Seems as if you and your partner have a communications problem. You should show him what you wrote above. Then see if he’s open to a compromise—he will dress up more often and you will dress down more often. If the two of you can’t agree on the terms of a compromise, then you might have to seek advice from an entirely different kind of forum.

 

[Charles Dana]

You don't need anyone's permission to be the best dressed guy in the room . If the ties look good on you , wear them .

If the OP wants to stay in his relationship, then—whether he wants to or not—he has no choice but to consider his partner’s feelings.

I’d agree with your advice if the person objecting to the tie were anyone other than the OP’s significant other.

 

[Charles Dana]

Much more often than not, my husband dresses casually when we're out and about (t-shirt, shorts or jeans, athletic shoes, unless the occasion calls for dressing up, and this is someone who only has one pair of dress pants. Egad!) compared to me, who loves to dress dapper even when we're just going out for a casual lunch or running errands. He sometimes remarks that I look dorky because of the contrast between where we're going and what I'm wearing, but he is cool with what I choose to wear (even when I look more gentlemanly than him. Ha!) and vice versa.

Looks like you and your husband have mutually healthy attitudes.