As is outlined in this excerpt from his 1688 book, The Academy of Armoire by author Randle Holme III, a cravat is another kind of adornment for the neck being nothing else but a long towel put about the collar, and so tied before with a bow knot. Menswear historians point to the 1810s as around the time when the cravat came to be commonly called a tie, and it was commonly thought that a mans character could be determined from the way he tied it
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