Are they coming back soon? Ever?
NEVER, and I hope the skinny ties being pushed by GQ and Men's Vogue will go away, along with the skinny cheap suit look as well.
I remember a few yrs back where I was working I was helping a mother pick out ties for her sons, and she was trying to match them with shirts. She pick out ties and shirt that would either make them look like lime green geckos, or attract lime green geckos. I told her "Stripes and patterns", she said, but that is too grandpa-ish, I told her, "what was stylish and conservative back then is the same now, go look at a Jos. A Bank catalog."
Just as women tend not to dress for men at work, men don't wear ties for women---we wear them to impress each other, with the occasional "I like your tie", by a woman. That's why women are soo bad at picking out ties for men.