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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.

Its peculiarity is not so much in the knot or its cut as much as in the fabric itself, which is weaved (cotton silk or wool). The impression is one of a warm fabric, suitable for sports events.

With long legs falling under the loops helping create the impression of a clover this knot was also defined as the “Shamrock “

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 …