Installation – A cravat around the arena

          Over a billion people around the world have seen Academia Cravatica’s largest project. The project was performed in Pula on 18th October 2003. The author of the installation is prof. Marijan Bušić. The installation around the Arena, the best preserved Roman amphitheatre in the world, symbolically connected the past and the future, the ancient times …

Cravat or notice of dismissal

It is well known that Croatian administration of justice is crowded with various indictments. However, it is very unlikely that there is a case similar to the one in Austria. The issue of clothing is a specific problem in some companies. Each company has it own dress code or tries to adopt one in order to be recognizable and unique …

Cravat as a warning symbol

A great idea for a good cause. That is a short description of a humanitarian action in Tulane, a town in the south of The USA. Bettina Beach, a former advisor in a cancer research institute, came up with a great idea on how to increase awareness about the widely spread prostate cancer issue using the cravat as a fashion …

18th October – The Cravat day!

The purpose of Cravat DayThe installation “A Cravat around the Arena”, performed on 18th October 2003 in Pula, created by Marijan Bušić, was as a world scale spectacle, seen on world television by more than a billion people. It was assessed as “the most ambitious, most well-thought out concept and project to promote the Croatian identity” (Ive Šimat Banov). Through …

Cravat day 2010 in Croatia and the World

The Croatian origin of the cravat During the Thirty Years War in the 17th century (1618-1648) Croatian soldiers were known everywhere as exceptional warriors, and they joined the French royal army. Alongside their military skills they were noted for one detail. They wore a kerchief tied around their necks. That kerchief, tied in a knot, quickly spread as a fashion …

Tie-art by Nicholas Daddazio

Nicholas B. Daddazio is an artist devoted to the study of the cravat and its symbolism. He is also a special correspondent for Academia Cravatica from New York. His study of the cravat resulted in production of a large collection of bronce cravat sculptures that he had started making in 1992. In year 2005, he included giant mixed-media necktie sculptures …

Materials that go together

When one chooses a cravat to wear that day, one also has to pay attention to the material. There are certain rules that should be followed to make the choice easier. For example, because it is not possible to be hot and cold at the same time, there is no reason why one should wear a woollen cravat with a …

Cravat psychology

Psychology and clinic psychology have studied the cravat as a unique fashion phenomenon. Here are some interesting insights. If a person wears only one cravat type: striped patterns reveal a powerful will and power aspirations conservative people wear green cravats people who want to please everybody wear polka-dot patterns eccentric people wear flashy cravats introverted people usually wear black cravats.

Advice from the past

Here is some advice from Count Della Galda’s book (1827) “The art of knotting cravats in usual and unusual ways in sixteen lessons”. Here are some guidelines on which cravats to take on a journey. A man should never travel without a small suitcase in which he will put his cravat collection. The suitcase should contain: 1. a dozen of …