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A necktie, or simply a tie, is a piece of cloth worn for decorative purposes around the neck, resting under the shirt collar and knotted at the throat, and often draped down the chest. Variants include the ascot, bow, bolo, zipper tie, cravat, and knit. The modern necktie, ascot, and bow tie are descended from the cravat.
The cravat (/ k r ə ˈ v æ t /) is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie, originating from a style worn by members of the 17th century military unit known as the Cravats. [1] The modern British "cravat" is called an "ascot" in American English.
Ralph Northam, then the governor of the U.S. state of Virginia, speaking while wearing an ascot tie in 2018. An ascot tie or ascot is a neckband with wide pointed wings, traditionally made of pale grey patterned silk. [citation needed] This wide tie is usually patterned, folded over, and fastened with a tie pin or tie clip.
Navajo jewelry on a bolo tie. The bolo tie was made the official neckwear of Arizona on April 22, 1971, by Governor Jack Williams. New Mexico passed a non-binding measure to designate the bolo as the state's official neckwear in 1987. On March 13, 2007, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed into law that the bolo tie was the state's ...
A striped bow tie. The bow tie or dicky bow [1] / b oʊ / is a type of necktie. A modern bow tie is tied using a common shoelace knot, which is also called the bow knot for that reason. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar of a shirt in a symmetrical manner so that the two opposite ends form loops.
The knot is named after the Duke of Windsor.He is sometimes credited with its invention [1] alongside his London shirtmaker. [2] It is however the case that the Duke achieved the wide knot that was his signature by wearing ties of thicker cloth that produced a wider knot from the conventional four-in-hand, and hence the Windsor knot was likely invented to emulate the Duke's wide knots using ...
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
A jabot from 1915 Jabot MET CI40.107.6. A jabot (/ ʒ æ ˈ b oʊ / ⓘ; from French jabot 'a bird's crop') is a decorative clothing-accessory consisting of lace or other fabric falling from the throat, suspended from or attached to a neckband or collar, or simply pinned at the throat.