Regency Fashions: Cravate Mathematique

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LESSON XII Cravate Mathématique Plate C fig 20 REGULARITY and proportion are the essentials of every art In a beautiful landscape we are occasionally delighted with the kuotted and bent trunk of the
majestic oak but the correct and beautiful proportion of a Grecian column even in ruins rivets our attention and excites our wonder and admiration The Crarate Mathématique is a combination of symmetry and regularity the style is grave and severe and the slightest wrinkle is strictly prohibited The ends should be geometrically correct and must bear examination even by the aid of a compass they should descend obliquely from each side and form two acute angles in crossing all the folds in a horizontal direction forming the two acute and opposite angles of a triangle which the Mathématique must always strictly represent Black is generally worn and is made either of taffeta or Levantine A whalebone stiffener is requisite

From The Art of Tying the Cravat: Demonstrated in Sixteen Lessons (1828).

For more on cravats:

Regency Fashion: Putting on a Cravat – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

Regency Fashion: The Cravat a l’Americaine – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

Regency Fashion: Cravate a la Byron – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

Regency Fashion: Cravate Sentimentale – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

Regency Fashion: The Cravate en Cascade – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

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