H. LE BLANC Esqr.
Ingrey & Madeley, Lithog. 310 Strand.
THE ART
OF
TYING THE CRAVAT:
DEMONSTRATED IN SIXTEEN LESSONS,
INCLUDING
THIRTY-TWO DIFFERENT STYLES,
FORMING
A Pocket Manual;
And exemplifying the advantage arising from an elegant
arrangement of this important part of the Costume;
PRECEDED BY
A HISTORY OF THE CRAVAT,
FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT TIME;
And remarks on its influence on Society in general.
By H. LE BLANC, Esq.
With explanatory Plates, and a Portrait of the Author
“Nothing is more laudable than an enquiry after truth.”
Addison.
THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
EFFINGHAM WILSON, 88, CORNHILL,
AND INGREY & MADELEY, 310, STRAND.
1828.
Ingrey and Madeley, Printers, 310, Strand.
INTRODUCTION.
No one accustomed to mix with the higher classesof society will be at all inclined to dispute theadvantages arising from a genteel appearance; ittherefore becomes necessary that the means ofacquiring this distinction should be clearly demonstrated.An attentive perusal of the followingpages will conduce to this desired effect.
“L’art de mettre sa Cravate est à l’homme dumonde ce que l’art de donner à diner est a l’hommed’état.”
The Cravat should not be considered as a mereornament, it is decidedly one of the greatest preservatives[iv]of health—it is a criterion by whichthe rank of the wearer may be at once distinguished,and is of itself “a letter of introduction.”
The most fastidious may in this book find amodel for imitation, as not only the form, butthe colour appropriate to each particular style, isdescribed in the clearest and most comprehensivemanner.
It can be incontrovertibly asserted that thiswork, far from being an ephemeral production,will be found to contain a mass of useful information,and may be termed an “Encyclopædiaof knowledge.”
The question whether Cravats were worn bythe ancients is satisfactorily decided.
It is fully proved that the Romans used achin cloth, corresponding almost entirely withthe modern Cravat; and that the collar of the[v]ancient Persians, Egyptians, and Greeks was theorigin of the Stock of the present day.
In the chapter on black and coloured silk Cravats,it is shewn that the former never obtainedgreater celebrity than in the last ten years of theeighteenth century, and the first ten of the nineteenth;that is to say, during a term of years repletewith events of the greatest political interest.
The work is divided into easy lessons—the ...