The Perfect Gentleman Issue 1 - March 2016 | Page 12

STYLISH GENTLEMAN
Beau Brummel, the sartorial legend, was famous
for wasting hundreds of cravats by discarding
ones that did not tie perfectly. Then the cravat
started to change and the tie as we know it now
developed in the Victorian period and took a
fashionable hold over the stylish men of the
world.
The cravat floundered and morphed into the
style we know today, the Day Cravat or Ascot,
which bears a striking similarity to the Cravat’s
worn by those Croats in the 1600s. It was
brought back to the height of fashion in the
1920s & 30s by the Duke of Windsor and a
cohort of film stars such as Cary Grant, David
Niven and the like, and stayed in fashion until
the 1970s.
That brings us to today. I so enjoyed seeing my
Grandfather wear his cravat and watching the
stylish men of Hollywood past that I wanted to
make the crava [