show your lighter side.
Basset Hound
Beagle
Bichon Frise
Black Lab (Chocolate Lab
and Yellow Lab)
Border Collie
Boston Terrier
Bulldog
Cavalier King Charles
Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Dachshund
Dalmatian
Doberman Pinscher
English Pointer
Great Dane
Irish Setter
Jack Russell
Old English Sheepdog
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
(Corgi)
Pug
Rottweiler
Schnauzer
Scottish Terrier
Siberian Husky
Soft Coated Wheaten
Springer Spaniel
Vizsla
Weimaraner
West Highland
Wire Fox Terrier
Yorkshire
Lab, Border Collie, Boston Terrier, Boxer, Bulldog, Cavalier King Charles, Chesapeake Bay Retriever,
Dachshund, Dalmatian, Doberman Pinscher, English Pointer, Golden Retriever, Great Dane, Irish Setter,
Jack Russell, Old English Sheepdog, Pembroke Welsh Corgi (Corgi), Pug, Rottweiler, Schnauzer, Scottish
Terrier, Siberian Husky, Soft Coated Wheaten, Springer Spaniel, Vizsla, Weimaraner, West Highland, Wire
Fox Terrier, and Yorkshire.
In some breed ties there is a choice between original style and a new style.
A Quick History of the Necktie
(including the ascot and bowtie) are descendents of the cravat.
The cravat referred to a strip of parchment or cloth. From the end of the 16th century the term band applied to that which was worn
around the neck but wasn’t a “ruff”. A “ruff” was originally worn about the neck to prevent high necked clothing from getting dingy and
dirty-looking.
During the 1630’s to 1640’s, King Louis XIV of France was visited by Croatian mercenaries enlisted to fight in the Thirty Years’ War for
the King and Richelieu against the Duc de Guise and the Queen Mother, Marie de Medici. By 1650 the French king and his court were
wearing the soft neck scarves instead of the previously fashionable lace ruffs as curiosity was piqued around Paris by something so
distinctive. Various types of cloths were used for the new style of neck scarves, fine linen, muslin, and silk with broad edges of lace
being used for military officers and the upper classes of society.
The cravat then went across the English Channel with exiled King Charles II of England when he returned to his throne. Englishmen
showed their ingenuity by devising different ways to tie cravats into as many as 100 different knots. The cravat style evolution began
and from the 1860’s to the 1880’s cravats became narrower. The bow tie made its debut in the 1840’s.
In the 1850’s the four-in-hand knot became fashionable. The four-in-hand knot was named for it’s resemblance to the knot used by
carriage coach drivers to control their team of four horses’ reins. Later an exclusive gentlemen’s club in London took the name of the
knot and the four-in-hand knot exploded into popularity. Through time the name of the knot fell out of usage becoming simply a “long
tie” or just “tie”.
