Bow-fronted jacket - how the chuff do I tie it neatly?

[badgermonkey]

My sister bought me a lovely swingy jacket for Christmas - it has a long scarfy thing made of the same material (so quite thick) that ties in a bow at the front. It was beautifully tied when I got it but obviously you have to untie it to put it on, and I CANNOT for the life of me tie it again neatly. When I tie it in the normal bow way it looks absolutely appalling. I tried following some bow tie instructions on the internet but it wasn't tight enough and still looked droopy and awful.

Help me please, otherwise I have a lovely jacket I can't wear! I tried googling but none of the results really applied.

One way is to make two loops, one with each ribbon and then tie them in the normal knot. If the bow still looks wrong, take the back-lying piece of ribbon, loosen the "knot" and feed it over and through the "knot".

[Did you know there is a piece of modern, "difficult" poetry that is basically a description of tying a bow? and it's v. funny because it is completely unrecognisable and incomprehensible as an instruction.]

Could you take it back to where it's from and ask them to show you?

Hmm, thanks zen, although I have tried that already! I think it's because the tie is so thick and floppy and not ribbony at all which makes it so difficult. Perhaps I am just cack-handed.

I can't really take it for them to show me because it's from Primark, and not only do we not have one here, I don't think the assistants will be any better informed than I am!