[DOC] [TLE] Necktie - Wikipedia [PAR] A necktie, or simply tie, is a long piece of cloth worn for decorative purposes 
around the neck, ... The boy-king Louis XIV began wearing a lace cravat about 
1646, when he was seven, ... International Necktie Day is celebrated on October 
18 in Croatia and in various ... At this time, another form of neckwear worn was 
the scarf. [DOC] [TLE] Cravat - Wikipedia [PAR] The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow 
tie, originating ... Croatia (Hrvatska in Croatian) today celebrates Cravat Day on 
October 18. ... During the wars of Louis XIV of 16891697, except for court, the 
flowing cravat ... Eastern Europe: an introduction to the people, lands, and culture
. [DOC] [TLE] The Origins of the Neck Tie - Today I Found Out [PAR] Mar 26, 2013 ... In the early 1630s, during the Thirty Years War, Croatian soldiers in support of ... 
By the time Louis XIV came to the throne, these ties became... [DOC] [TLE] Necktie Evolution - The History of the Necktie | Tie-a-Tie.net [PAR] Aug 14, 2013 ... King Louis XIII hired Croatian mercenaries (see picture above) who wore a ... 
While these early neckties did serve a function (tying the top of their .... What do 
you think the next decade will bring in form of men's neckwear? [DOC] [TLE] History & Evolution of Ties, Scarves & Neckwear  Gentleman's ... [PAR] Jun 8, 2016 ... Learn all about the history of ties & neckwear starting with the scarf ... In the wake 
of the upheavals of the Thirty Years War, Europe introduced the necktie as we 
know it today. .... While there are no paintings that show Croatian mercenaries ... 
determined by the size of their wig, King Louis XIV was, of course,... [DOC] [TLE] The Complete History of Neckties - About Neckties [PAR] Aug 21, 2015 ... The necktie was invented in Croatia, or at least that is where a form or fashion ... 
This was certainly an early sort of fashion statement that signified a way of ... 
However, without this acceptance by the King of France Louis XIV, of tying .... 
Fascinated with the valor of the Croatian mercenaries in a religious war... [DOC] [TLE] Why You Have to Wear a Tie - Modern Notion [PAR] Jun 22, 2015 ... What is the history of ties and will they ever go away? ... how we wound up 
saddled with these suffocating forms of regulated self-expression. ... the French 
King Louis XIV hired a group of Croatian mercenaries to fight under him and ... 
Yet these early ties all looked quite different from ties as we know them... [DOC] [TLE] cravats - historic clothing [PAR] Jan 11, 1999 ... Historical Background ... It was in early 19th centuty France and England that the 
cravat achieved the height of fassion. ... The history of the modern necktie dates 
back a mere hundred years ... Another report suggests that Louis XIV hired 
Croatian mercinaries in 1636 as it was on these mercenaries that he... [DOC] [TLE] History of Ties | The Winsor Tie Company [PAR] The earliest historical example is in ancient Egypt. ... Thirty Years' War (1618
1648) when Croatian mercenaries from the Military Frontier in French ... when 
Brooks Brothers introduced the striped ties in the United States around the 
beginning ... There, the soldiers were presented as glorious heroes to Louis XIV, 
a monarch... [DOC] [TLE] How necktie is made - material, manufacture, making, history, used ... [PAR] The mercenaries, called the Royal Cravattes (from the Croatian word kravate), ... 
to the cravat for almost two hundred years, only to be forgotten by the early 1900s
. ... be so complex, tie fabric weaving is seen as an art form by many in the 
industry. .... Introduced into fabrics as air textured, false twist textured, or fully-
drawn flat... [DOC] [TLE] Necktie [PAR] French king Louis XIV with an early cravat in 1667 ... when Croatian mercenaries 
in French service, wearing their traditional small, knotted ... Richard Atkinson and 
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Question: Louis XIV's Croatian mercenaries introduced this early form of necktie
Answer: a cravat