The Cravat Through Time

The Cravat Through Time

At the French Court

The Royal Recognition of the Cravat

How the cravat entered royal representation under Louis XIV and became a courtly norm, from the early 1648 portrait to Louis XVI.

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Evolution of form

Beau Brummell and a New Measure of Elegance

How Beau Brummell turned simplicity, precise tailoring and the white cravat into a new ideal of male elegance at the beginning of the 19th century

Evolution of form

When Knots Acquire Names

From Neckclothitania to The Art of Tying the Cravat: how named knots, manuals and rules transformed neckwear in the early 19th century

Evolution of form

Four-in-Hand: When the Tie Becomes Modern

How the four-in-hand knot, turn-down collar and lounge suit helped shape the modern necktie during the 19th century.

EARLY TRACES

Croats on Snayers’ Battlefields

Peeter Snayers’ paintings of Lützen, the Somme, Pressnitz, Einbeck and Dachau preserve visual traces of Croatian horsemen and their distinctive neckcloths.

The Etymology of Style

Cravat: A Word Laden with History and Values

How the word cravat preserves the origins, history and meanings of the cravat

European Traces of the Cravat

What Was the “Crovata”?

Zadar Inventories and Dress in the Croatian Style

Cravat Knots

Windsor: The Knot the Duke Never Tied

How the attempt to imitate the Duke of Windsor’s style gave rise to one of the world’s best-known tie knots.

Cravat Innovators

Jesse Langsdorf and the New Architecture of the Necktie

A tribute to the New York innovator who transformed the inner construction of the twentieth century’s most widespread form of cravat.

European Traces of the Necktie

Krawatte, Krabat and Cravatten Statt

German Traces of the Name and the Word Cravat

European Traces of the Cravat

Cravate in the French Language

From a military term to a garment

The Cravat Through Time

At the French Court

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