The Art of Tying the Cravat: Demonstrated in Sixteen Lessons, Including Thirty-two Different Styles, Forming a Pocket Manual ... Preceded by a History of the Cravat, from Its Origin to the Present Time, and Remarks on Its Influence on Society in General

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S. & D. A. Forbes, 1829 - 68 pagine
 

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Pagina 12 - ... when Louis XIII. allowed his to grow. Then raised collars, plaited neckcloths, and bands (both plain and of lace), enveloped the throats of our ancestors, from the neck to the chin, and covered the tops of the arms and the shoulders.
Pagina 3 - of tying the cravat, demonstrated in sixteen lessons, including thirty-two different styles, forming a pocket manual, and . . . preceded by a history of the cravat, from its origin to the present time ... By H.
Pagina 13 - ... rosette, or ornamented with a button or tuft, which hung gracefully on the breast. This new arrangement, which confined the throat but very slightly, was at first termed a Croat, since corrupted to Cravat. The Cravats of the officers and people of rank were extremely fine, and the ends were embroidered or trimmed with broad lace ; those for the lower classes were subsequently made of cloth or cotton, or at the best of black taffeta, plaited ; which was tied round the neck by two small strings.
Pagina 19 - These instruments of clothing, before now, have been made of black horse-hair, tolerably hard, and transformed into a collar as firm as iron by the insertion of a slip of wood, which, acting on the larynx, and compressing every part of the neck, gave the eyes a wonderful prominence, and the wearer an almost supernatural appearance of healthy vigour. The present military stock is not quite as bad as this, although it is bad enough.
Pagina 6 - Dubuque was the most notable character among the miners of the last dozen years of the eighteenth century and the first ten of the nineteenth. He had made rich discoveries of lead in the bluffs and ravines adjoining the present site of the Iowa town which bears his name. To curry favor with S. Mis. 104 13 the Spanish, then in possession of the soil, he called his diggings "The Spanish mines''; and indeed there is no doubt that some years...
Pagina 11 - Sea, also adhere to this fashion; very few of them, however, merit the eastern compliment, as their throats are generally ugly and ill-formed. This custom gradually declined in France and several parts of Europe, and luxury, rather than necessity, introduced the fashion of covering the throat loosely with a fine starched linen cloth; this was worn above the shirt, without a collar; the ends were brought down on the breast and there fastened by laces of thread — from this...
Pagina 62 - When a man of rank makes his entree into a circle distinguished for taste and elegance...
Pagina 56 - ... be so carefully put on as to prevent all appearance of the shirt, except the collar, which must be of the most dazzling white. Next comes the Talma Cravat, a rude sling like the Byron and Bergami, and always black. Then follows the Italian Cravat, formed in nearly the same manner as the Irish, but instead of turning the ends round each other, they are passed through a ring. The bandage round the neck is a full alehouse quart. Next comes the Diplomatic Cravat, the same as the Gastronomical; followed...
Pagina 55 - ... is a Cravat and a waistcoat rolled into one. Then comes the Romantic Cravat, another offshoot of the Byron. Following this is the Cravat of Fidelity, nearly the same as the Mathematical Cravat. It must be black, and folded on a whalebone stiffener, and should be so carefully put on as to prevent all appearance of the shirt, except the collar, which must be of the most dazzling white. Next comes the Talma Cravat, a rude sling like the Byron and Bergami, and always black. Then follows the Italian...
Pagina 5 - No one accustomed to mix with the higher classes of society will be at all inclined to dispute the advantages arising from a genteel appearance; it therefore becomes necessary that the meanes of acquiring this dis-- tinction should be clearly demonstrated.

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