Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — The Tying of a Cravat. [ARTICLE]

The Tying of a Cravat.

"When Carlyle wrote his “Clothes Philosophy” he lamented that nothing had been previously written on so important a subject. But a little book bearing imprint of 1829 has come to light, devoted entirely to the importance of a properly tied cravat. After, doubtless, profound investigation of So weighty a question, the author records it as his opinion that “when a man of rank makes an entree into a circle distinguished for taste and eleganee, and the usual compliments have passed on both sides, he will preceive that his coat will attract only a slight degree of attention, but that the most critical and scrutinizing examination will be made on the set of his cravat.” Entirely or comparatively oblivions of all the rest of his person, “the delighted eyes” of all present “will be fixed on that part of his person which separates the ohonlder from the chin,” and upon the feld and finish of the several inches of white.linen (here visible will depend the favorable or unfavorable nature of his reception.