The Art of Tying the Cravat, presented in sixteen lessons, is a witty early nineteenth-century guide to the gentleman’s neckwear. It surveys the many styles of the cravat and instructs the reader in the precise folds and knots that distinguished the fashionable man of the Regency and Romantic eras.
Part etiquette, part instruction, the book treats the cravat as the crowning element of masculine dress and a marker of taste. Its lessons preserve a vanished art of the dressing room. A delightful guide to a forgotten essential of menswear, it is available here as a free EPUB download.