Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

The modern necktie, ascot, and bow tie are descended from the cravat.

The modern necktie taken up, then spread by, Western Europe traces back to the time of Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) when Croatian mercenaries from the Croatian Military Frontier in French service, wearing their traditional small, knotted neckerchiefs, aroused the interest of the Parisians.

In Commonwealth countries, necktie stripes run from the left shoulder down to the right side.

The four-in-hand necktie ( as distinct from the four-in-hand knot ) was fashionable in Great Britain in the 1850s.

As fashion changed from stiff shirt collars to soft, turned-down collars, the four-in-hand necktie knot gained popularity ; its sartorial dominance rendered the term " four-in-hand " redundant usage, shortened " long tie " and " tie.

The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie, originating from 17th-century Croatia.

The Windsor knot, also referred to as a Full Windsor or incorrectly as a Double Windsor to distinguish it from the half-Windsor, is a method of tying a necktie.

The men's scarves were sometimes referred to as " cravats " ( from the French cravate, meaning " Croat "), and were the precursor of the necktie.

The cravat, an ancestor of the necktie and bow tie, evolved from scarves of this sort in Croatia.

Note the famous Maxell marketing image: a man with his hair, necktie and drink being blown back by the sound from a speaker.

His hair and necktie, along with the lampshade to the man's right and the martini glass on the low table to the man's left, are being blown back by the tremendous sound from speakers in front of him — supposedly due to the audio accuracy of Maxell's product.

In the ensuing fight, Lenny tries to throw Max off the balcony and Max grabs Lenny's necktie, leaving both of them dangling from the railing over the street below.

In 1989 he was apprehended after shoplifting a necktie from a department store in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia ; convicted of a misdemeanor, he was sentenced to serve 30 days in a local jail.

Although topologically identical, when the knot is made in the manner used to fasten a flat necktie it appears somewhat different from when tied in cylindrical cordage for load-bearing purposes.

At first this was blue, but from 1973, the Thälmann pioneers wore a red necktie like the pioneers in the Soviet Union, while the Young Pioneers kept the blue one.

* Terence, a male green bubble-bath-container crocodile ; can blow bubbles from his nostrils ; has only one tooth ; wears a collar and necktie.

In Commonwealth countries, normally only people affiliated with a regiment ( or university, school or organisation ) will wear a necktie affiliated with that regiment ( or university, college, school, or other organisation ).

The Catholic school uniform stereotype consists of a pleated plaid skirt or jumper ( a sleeveless dress ), Mary Jane or saddle shoes, a blouse, and a sweater, for girls ; for boys, a button-down shirt, a necktie, and dark pants.

In the Morven Campus, the # 1 Uniform requires a school blazer and necktie to be worn.

The necktie depends on the grade, with different designs for middle school, senior school, and the graduating class.

The high school uniform has a white long-sleeved blouse, with the blue marine collar and sailor's necktie.

Stanton's colorful, but impeccable, wardrobe — slate-blue pinstripe suit, ecru shirt, robin's egg blue necktie with splashes of saffron — made him, in the mind of one sardonic CBS vice-president, " the greatest argument we have for color television.

In Hungary, as well as the Hungarian diaspora communities in countries such as the U. S. A., the necktie color is national rather than distinctive for each troop, being light blue for ages 10 and younger and grass green for ages 11 and up ..

Furthermore, on certain occasions ( usually on ceremonies or competitions ), the uniform should be worn as full dress, with red and white scarf / necktie, dark brown beret, rope, dagger and even scout's stick.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, it became popular to match the necktie colour with the shirt ( a " monochromatic " look popularized by TV personality Regis Philbin ) or even wearing a lighter coloured tie with a darker shirt, usually during formal occasions.

Bow Ties: Bow ties have always provided an alternative to neckties, and even preceded the necktie.

Although the necktie is more prominent in today's society, being seen at business meetings, formal functions, schools, and sometimes even at home, the bow tie is making a comeback with fun-formal events such as dinner, cocktail parties and nights out on the town.

In later portrayals, the employer and guests might wear casual slacks or even jeans, while a male domestic worker wore a jacket and tie or a white dress shirt with black pants, necktie or bowtie, maybe even waistcoat, or a female domestic worker either a blouse and skirt ( or trousers ) or a dress.

He is usually seen wearing a bow tie and collar, though he sometimes switches to a diagonally striped necktie when running for public office.

Technocracy Inc. officials wore a uniform, consisting of a " well-tailored double-breasted suit, gray shirt, and blue necktie, with a monad insignia on the lapel ", and its members saluted Scott in public.

Dark gray sports jacket, lighter gray slacks, pink flannel shirt, black silk necktie.

instead of a necktie he wore a leather bolo drawn through a golden ring in which was set a lump of pale pure jade.

These traits extended into Clark's wardrobe, which typically consists of a bland-colored business suit, a red necktie, black-rimmed glasses ( which in Pre-Crisis stories had lenses of Kryptonian material that would not be damaged when he fired his heat vision through them ), combed-back hair, and occasionally a fedora.

He wore a black lightweight raincoat, loafers, a dark suit, a neatly pressed white collared shirt, a black necktie, and a mother of pearl tie pin.

President Harding allegedly won a $ 4, 000 pearl necktie pin at one White House poker game.

Hippies also inspired the decline in popularity of the necktie and other business clothing, which had been unavoidable for men during the 1950s and early 1960s.

For girls, a uniform would be a white blouse with short or long sleeves, a ribbon or a necktie, and a pleated skirt.

While retaining the red necktie he's had since the 1994 Game Boy remake of Donkey Kong, he also donned a distinct physical appearance featuring heavy brows and a peaked lock of hair on top of his head.

He wears a brown Pork pie hat and a red and white polka-dot necktie.

Stiles was almost always in a button-up shirt ; typically a dress shirt, and was one of the few performers ( along with Greg Proops, and Colin during tapings of the UK version ) to commonly wear a necktie.

* Donkey Kong, the titular character and the first playable character in the game, is a large, muscular Mountain Gorilla who wears a red monogrammed necktie.

In such cases, Big Bird must wear a necktie to cover the hole.

Plain cardigans are often worn over shirts and inside suit jackets as a less formal version of the waistcoat or vest that restrains the necktie when the jacket has been removed.

The sloppy editing was exposed in other ways as well ; in his review, critic John Simon wrote: " Some things, I suppose, never change, like the necktie Redford wears in two scenes that take place many years apart.

In 1969, clad in a necktie, he appeared in the Sesame Street Pitch Reel in the board room sequences.

* Rodney Dangerfield's shtick was centered around his famous catchphrase, " I don't get no respect ," accompanied by his characteristic facial gesture and yanking or straightening his scarlet necktie.

Hitchcock himself designed Bruno's lobster necktie, revealed in a close-up to have strangling lobster claws, and " he personally selected an orange peel, a chewing-gum wrapper, wet leaves, and a bit of crumpled paper that were used for sewer debris " in the scene where Bruno inadvertently drops Guy's lighter down the storm drain.