Word: cravate
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...Have you noticed," asked Ahmed Karabegovic, secretary-general of the organizing committee for the Sarajevo Games, "that all of the stores in the city still have the Olympic emblem in the windows and that many men wear this Olympic tie?" He thrust forward a cravat with a snowflake and five rings woven into its design. "It is a small thing, but it is significant. Before, our city was known as a town of ashes, the place where a war began. Now it is a town of the Olympics and of friendship; much has changed...
...tough. What's a guy to do when the Smithsonian asks for a donation of his trademark white shirt and red tie for its permanent collection in Washington, D.C.? "I was a little hesitant at first," says Dangerfield. "I only have two ties." The $5 cravat-identical to the one he wore for his first television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, 15 years ago-is a veteran of 65 Tonight show appearances. The shirt is an $85 white voile Beck & Sobel number (18-in. collar, 33½-m. sleeve). Shrugs Rodney: "They'll probably use the shirt...
After a year trying to put a Brooks Brothers cravat on its blue-collar audience, Daily News officials are convinced that they have rediscovered their market...
...what Hawthorne wore. During cold winter mornings in Lenox, Mellow reveals, the author sat in his study wearing an old purple dressing gown made by his wife Sophia. Hawthorne's wardrobe also had its formal side, we discover, although at one time he refused to wear "the white muslin cravat then in fashion." Mellow provides similarly telling details about Hawthorne's diet--at one dinner he ate cutlets, fricassees, ragouts, tongue and chickenpies--and about his wife's wardrobe (Sophia's first ball dress, a "superb brockade," was "paletinted, low-neck, and short-sleeved"). Other minor details abound from...
...American business. In Britain, graduates of Oxbridge colleges, officers of army regiments and members of London clubs have long worn institutional ties as a way of recognizing other "old boys" without asking. Now Americans can pick out a colleague or a competitor at a sales convention according to the cravat around his neck. Corporate neckties have recently become a bullish $12 million industry. Says A. Harvey Schreter, whose Baltimore-based company has made about 600 different company ties: "Last year our business grew by 30%, and it has trebled in the past five years...