How is it with a skinny tie (=small knot) it looks good but with a regular tie it would only look good with a big knot?
My thinking was that maybe it would look good with either a small knot or a very large one, but not with a medium knot. The large knot may fill up the space between the spread collar, a small knot and thin tie looks good with a spread collar. But somewhere in between doesn't work.
Im just sharing my opinion, in my own experience it looked good with a thin tie and did not with a regular tie and medium knot.