page_title: List of bow tie wearers
section_title: Lawyers
hierarchical_section_title: List of bow tie wearers / Bow tie wearers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Lawyers
caption_attribution_description: Archibald Cox
context_page_description: This is a list of notable bow tie wearers, real and fictional; notable people for whom the wearing of a bow tie is also a notable characteristic.
  A list of bow tie devotees reads like a Who's Who of rugged individualists.
  — The New York Times
  Bow tie wearing can be a notable characteristic for an individual. Men's clothier Jack Freedman told The New York Times that wearing a bow tie "is a statement maker" that identifies a person as an individual because "it's not generally in fashion". Numerous writers and bow tie sellers have observed that the popularity of this type of neckwear can rise and fall with the fortunes of the well-known people who wear them.
  Until the 20th century, the bow tie was the general rule for neckties. Starting in early 20th century, the bow tie started to become more rare.
  In 1996, The Wall Street Journal quoted statistics from the Neckwear Association of America showing that bow ties represent 3 percent of the 100 million ties sold each year in the United States, most of them part of formal wear, such as for white tie and black tie.
context_section_description: Archibald Cox (1912–2004), the Watergate special prosecutor, constantly wore "his trademark bow tie, neatly knotted as always"
  Edward H. Levi (1911–2000), United States Attorney General, described by The New York Times as looking unready for political combat in "his signature bow tie and thick glasses"
  Louis Lowenstein (1925–2009), professor at Columbia University School of Law
  Henry Rothblatt (1916–1985), author, professor at New York Law School, and defense lawyer whose clients included four of the Watergate burglars, happy hooker Xaviera Hollander, and some soldiers charged in the killing of a reported Vietnamese double-agent. He was described by the Los Angeles Times as "the brash, bow-tied Bronx lawyer."
  John Paul Stevens (1920–2019), U.S. Supreme Court Justice who "rarely, if ever, wears any other neckwear on the bench"
  Joseph N. Welch (1890–1960), head attorney for the U.S. Army in the Army–McCarthy hearings of the 1950s
caption: Archibald Cox
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