
The bowtie: A new statement of counter culture or a 'middle finger around your neck'?
In his 1833 essay on vanity and elegance, Honoré de Balzac posited a bold opinion on the tying of bow ties. The manner in which his cravate is bowed and knotted, Balzac wrote in Traité de la Vie Élégante: Physiologie de la Toilette, separates ‘a man of …