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[Spanky]

Good one on bow ties Ice.  I like the history of clothes.  Used to have a big book with lots of pictures-my favorite kind--with the evolution of clothes.  Says stuff about a culture.  One of our first minted coins was of a female face of freedom in profile.  She had wild hair to represent that freedom, but congress caught so much flack they had to had a bow placed in her hair for later mintages.  Most "ties" as you point out were just cloth wrapped up and over, a "cravat", and cravats were pretty much it of one sort another until the early 19th century. 

I have a while velvet, clip-on bow tie, but no clothes to go with it.  Now, if I just had a pony. 


Spanky