No Ties?

I notice that many people come to shul without ties on Shabbat mincha. Is there anything in Halacha about this?

Shalom!

Thank you for your question.

Rashi and Ran in Masechet Nedarim note a custom for women to remove their Shabbat-exclusive jewelry late in the day on Shabbat afternoon. Based on this, the Shu”t Gur Aryeh Yehuda 13 rules that the requirement to wear Shabbat clothes no longer applies in the late afternoon. 

The Erech Shai says that the reason one is not required to wear Shabbat clothes in the late afternoon is to recall that Yosef, Moshe, and David each passed away on a Shabbat afternoon. Indeed, it is for this reason that Shabbat afternoons have a slightly mournful flavor to them.

However, the Halacha is not like the opinions above and the Poskim dismiss the references from Rashi and Ran mentioned above. They argue that the Nedarim reference, if halachically admissible at all, applies only to jewelry and cannot be extended to include any other Shabbat clothing. Indeed, the Magen Avraham rules that one should not remove one’s Shabbat clothes until after Havdala , and this is the only opinion brought in the Mishneh Berurah.

In conclusion: As mentioned, one should wear one’s Shabbat clothes until at least after Havdalla.

Nedarim 77; OC 300:2; Erech Shai , OC 262; Magen Avraham 262:2; Mishna Berura 262:8; Aruch Hashulchan , OC 262:3.