/fa/ - Fashion

>>15280661
I want a bow tie like this one. Could anybody help me find an accurate reproduction of it? It's more distinct than a modern bow tie, as it has the bow on a thicker band around the neck, and from pictures of the 1800s I've seen, I've usually noticed this look worn with up-turned collars.

>>15250399
The main difference is that they make no attempt to maintain the often serious, stoic sense of dignity that men of the 19th century near-universally respected, whether they tended to sport beards, mustaches, goatees, sideburns, or without facial hair. Men had greater understandings of obligations, in general, and the amounts of times to be silly were brief, and thought of often as petty enough that it was not worth going beyond the pale, to damage one's reputation. The only men who could afford to risk their dignity were professional clowns and other show men, who may well have been more serious outside of performances, not letting it seep into their personalities, as people today may be more apt to blend fiction with reality in their lives. We do not see that many of the younger generation of beard-wearers as serious people with a considerable stock of dignity, and they do not seem to care about holding onto that concept as our forebears could have understood it. Some men, mostly those who had started wearing beards before the 2010s, at least, are more likely to hold up a respectable image as dignified, working men that have their wits, while the often witless new set of beard-wearers, as they appear, lack those stalwart qualities. By now, being a fool during ones public and private life combined is often celebrated, with less distinctions made in many current style societies between masculine and effeminate actions and thoughts. You may still find men as they were, however.

Where do I buy a bowtie specifically fashioned like the one in this picture? Is there anything you have seen that comes very close? It is a photograph of the American Union General Sherman.

civil war union uniforms were the bomb