Today,October 18, is the international day of the tie
If you didn't know word cravat (tie) is connected with Croatians and story goes like this:
About six thousand soldiers and knights arrived in Paris to support King Louis XIII. Among them was a large number of Croatian mercenaries who, under the banning of the ban, remained in the service of the French king. A traditional dress with knitted, colored gowns in the form of chestnuts sparked the attention of the French court. The scarves were made of different materials, from rough, worn to ordinary soldiers, to silk and woolen woolen clothes. This "Croatian elegant style", completely unknown in what was then Europe, was around 1650 accepted in the French court and became a fashion bourgeois dress of that time as a symbol of culture and elegance. Besides the beauty, these scarves were more practical than French men's and officers' robes. In England the tie was brought by Charles II. on the return from exile. The tie soon became a fashion suit, and the whole of Europe.
This text is quotes from wikipedia
So next time you gonna wear cravat remember of that beautiful country.
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