Uniforms The cravat

The term four-in-hand is of often seem in invitations, especally if military people are attending. For example " Dinner at 7 pm, dress is informal, suit and four-in -hand tie acceptable.

This tells a gentleman he should wear a dinner jacket (ie. Tuxedo) with informal white shirt and black bow tie, but men without dinner jackets may attend but should wear a conservative business suit and necktie. No sport jackets allowed. It also tell women that dinner dresses can be worn, but tea dresses are acceptable. There has been a trend in the last 20 years to wear tea dress and save the dinner dress for semi formal affairs.
yours is the class-less society, right?

just from your pic i thought sth like uniform of the day (or is that navy only?)
 
Yours truly at some event trying for the look
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A school tie is a compulsory piece of school uniform for secondary schools in England, when I was at school, they insisted that our ties were knotted using the Windsor Knot. The posh schools like Eaton and Harrow insist that the pupils wear either a bowtie or a white tie. Can you believe that this is the current Eaton Uniform, its like something out of Hogwarts. The uniform hasn't changed since the 1800s.
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I attended a boarding school loosely based on your "public" school model and we had to wear a tie except on Saturdays. It was almost the last time I wore one. It does seem absurd to me to cling to a fashion fixed in one moment in time. I don't understand the message. "By jove, we've not changed in over a hundred years" ? Old money behaves in strange ways.
 
yours is the class-less society, right?

just from your pic i thought sth like uniform of the day (or is that navy only?)

Officers and gentlemen and gentleladies are expected to attend informal functions. At most events the officer can wear mess dress, but some require civilian attire. The military term "informal dress" tells an officer it is mess dress or tuxedo and gentleladies wear female mess dress or dinner dresses or tea dress. .At officer school this was a four hour class just in case one's parents did not teach this.

Proper manners are not class based.
 
I attended a boarding school loosely based on your "public" school model and we had to wear a tie except on Saturdays. It was almost the last time I wore one. It does seem absurd to me to cling to a fashion fixed in one moment in time. I don't understand the message. "By jove, we've not changed in over a hundred years" ? Old money behaves in strange ways.
Its to be expected of Eaton, its where the Royals attend school along with many Politicians. We used to call the Eaton boys Hooray Henry's, the lower years at Eaton have to look after the older boys, they basically end up in a servant role, the younger lads are known by the older boys as 'fags,' fags has a totally different meaning here in England.

Fagging was a traditional practice in British boarding private schools (nearly all "public schools" in the English sense) and also many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the most senior boys. While domestic servants were common in family households, the custom reflected household task distribution and taught pupils about service from both ends of the relationship very much reminiscent of the relationship between squire and knight in the Middle Ages.


Under school rules, fagging might entail harsh discipline and corporal punishment when those were standard practices.
anyway, back to cravats.
 
A school tie is a compulsory piece of school uniform for secondary schools in England, when I was at school, they insisted that our ties were knotted using the Windsor Knot. The posh schools like Eaton and Harrow insist that the pupils wear either a bowtie or a white tie. Can you believe that this is the current Eaton Uniform, its like something out of Hogwarts. The uniform hasn't changed since the 1800s.
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Beautiful!!
(sorry @Schwallanscher )
 
Officers and gentlemen and gentleladies are expected to attend informal functions. At most events the officer can wear mess dress, but some require civilian attire. The military term "informal dress" tells an officer it is mess dress or tuxedo and gentleladies wear female mess dress or dinner dresses or tea dress. .At officer school this was a four hour class just in case one's parents did not teach this.

Proper manners are not class based.

I must say, I like that. I don't know if I were up to it, the difference between a tea dress and a dinner dress escapes me (and where comes the cocktail) dress?) but I like the idea a lot. Nobody is forced to choose that career or attend these events, but if you play the game, you should follow the rules.
 
I must say, I like that. I don't know if I were up to it, the difference between a tea dress and a dinner dress escapes me (and where comes the cocktail) dress?) but I like the idea a lot. Nobody is forced to choose that career or attend these events, but if you play the game, you should follow the rules.

they are paid to fight not to be dressmen
 
Today were wear four-in-hand ties for the most part and most men rarely wear bow ties unless they wear dinner jackets. but were owe our habit of wearing ties back to the 1600s. There are books that show 100+ ways to tie your four-in-hand ties. I only tie my tie 3 ways. How many ways do you tie your tie?

I own and wear, bow ties, when the need for a tie arises. Generally I don't wear a dinner jacket, but my USAF "mess dress" equivalent, and tie my own. Like most Americans in our age, I'm a jeans and hunting shirt, dresser on a daily basis, but dressing for dinner, knowing how to tie cravat and bow tie, I still think important and approve of. Now, I pretty much only dress in coat-and-tie, for church, or social occasions. One of those things, I hate to see the passing of. Gee, guys wear sweatpants on airplanes these days. :cautious:

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A school tie is a compulsory piece of school uniform for secondary schools in England, when I was at school, they insisted that our ties were knotted using the Windsor Knot.

Not only is it useful instructing the young in proper dress and behaviour, it would alleviate all kinds of problems in our schools. IMHO though, a gentleman should know how to tie a Windsor knot...but never use it. Four-in-hand only, here.
 
Like those occupational photos on the previous page, I try to wear a cravat like that when portraying a working man in all but the hottest weather and isolated from all females. It's just too easy to slip into the modern mindset of what working people wear. I joke that I hold the record for walking the most miles on the C&O Canal towpath in a three-piece suit and tie. Once you get used to it, you hardly notice it.

A truly practical thing that I miss in modern life in the summer is a wide-brimmed straw hat. It's just now allowable, at least where I live.

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I've gone all American, my headgear, I pretty much wear it all year round, to be honest though mine has got a little bit tatty. Its not as classy as a straw boater, its old and tatty just like me.

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