The Lavalliere represented a sort of trademark, the bow tie par excellence of the artists as well as the anarchic and the lefties in general.
Adopted in the first half of the nineteenth century, it was in stark contrast with the stiff stocks of the time which trapped the necks of army men and the bourgeois in a tight hold. Its waviness symbolized the desire to escape conformity and stringent labelling.
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