Word: cravats
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...like this," explained Giro's Proprietor Herman Hover last week, adjusting his hand-painted cravat (tropical birds). "You've got to get a room jumping. You've got to fill it with hep people. If you haven't got a jumpy room, you haven't got a Hollywood nightclub...
Monday through Friday, David Lene-man paints silk ties and blouses. His shimmering cravat art-fauns, peonies, moons, banjos-is strictly for cash. But on weekends he goes out to the garage back of his Hollywood house and paints for fun, in the most enjoyable way he knows...
...maximum "passional love," still seemed to him "the wonder of civilization." His own ardor was overshadowed by his egotism, his thirst for glory and prestige under the Emperor. "I looked superb," he noted one day during this glittering period, "my hair done in thick black curls, my face fine; cravat, jabot, two vests-superb; breeches of cashmere . . . noble and assured carriage...
Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
...shirt and tie were also grey, the latter a silver grey cravat tied in a Windsor knot. The black spotted pattern of the tie harmonied perfectly with the black and grey of his suit...