Regency Fashion: The Cravat a l’Americaine

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After learning the basics of Putting on a Cravat, the next is to choose the style.

Today we are featuring an excerpt from The Art of Tying Cravats (1829) on Cravate a l’Americaine:

LESSON IV Cravate à l Américane See plate C fig 13 The Cravale à l Américaine is extremely pretty and easily formed provided the handkerchief is well starched When it is correctly formed it presents the appearance of a column destine to support a Corinthian capital This style has many admirers here and also among our friends the fashionables of the New World who pride themselves on its name which they call Independence this title may to a certain point be disputed as the neck is fixed in a kind of vice which entirely prohibits any very free movements The Cravate à l Américaine requires a whalebone stiffener and is commenced in

the same way as the Noud Gordien the ends are brought in front as shewn in fig 8 plate 6 are lowered as in fig 9 same plate and fastened to the shirt bosom like the Cravate en Cascade The prevailing colour is sea green or striped blue red and white

Neckclothitania-1818

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