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  All the elements which comprise a typical bow tie are present, however they are distributed in the “wrong” manner: on one side are the two knots and on the other the two extremities.

  Here as well, we have a bow tie characterized by only one bow and a single extremity, which are however grouped on the same side of the knot.

The horizontal development of the bow tie appears here rather peculiar, as if it were a tie, and longer than usual. The result is that of a diagonal against the shirt.

Here the bow tie’s legs are noticeably longer then the loops and fall over the shirt . This particular type was popular with the plantation owners in the south of the USA and became know thanks to Colonel Sanders, owner of a fast food chain.

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 …