The English Cravat

The English cravat is very fashionable at this moment, though it is not specially new. It consists of a long strip of silk ribbon which is tied directly under the chin in such a manner that the bows are very short, almost butterfly loops, while the ends hung right in the belt. They gradually widened and are finished with a sharp pointed cut. The four-in-hand is now made of figured ribbon embroidered with green clovers and in a study of the fashionable stocks, one certainly does see a great deal of hand embroidery so it looks as if every woman would have to turn embroiderer whether she wants to or not.
In the new stocks you notice a tendency toward the long ends in front. These are tied not so much under the chin as lower down. Take a ribbon which is carried twice around the neck, and knotted under the chin in a tied double knot. The ends are not allowed to fall, and they should nearly come to the knees. But there is another bow to be tied and this is directly over the bust. It should be a bow with two wide loops, and if one is skilled enough there should be four loops so that the whole thing when done is only a little longer than the belt.It is a good plan, unless you are skillful at tying, to tie the thing before it is put on and then fasten it in any clever way, so that it will look as though it were freshly tied.