John Singer Sargent in a pleated Ascot tie c. 1880

An ascot tie, or ascot, is a narrow neckband with wide pointed wings, traditionally made of pale grey patterned silk. This wide, formal tie is usually patterned, folded over, and fastened with a stickpin or tie tack. It is usually reserved for wear with morning dress for formal daytime weddings and worn with a cutaway morning coat and striped grey trousers. This type of dress cravat is made of a thicker, woven type of silk similar to a modern tie and is traditionally either grey or black.

The ascot is descended from the earlier type of cravat widespread in the early nineteenth century, most notably during the age of Beau Brummell, made of heavily starched linen and elaborately tied around the neck. Later in the 1880s, amongst the upper-middle-class in Europe men began to wear a more loosely tied version for formal daytime events with daytime full dress in frock coats or with morning coats. It remains a feature of morning dress for weddings today. The Royal Ascot race meeting at the Ascot Racecourse gave the ascot its name, although such dress cravats were no longer worn with morning dress at the Royal Ascot races by the Edwardian era. The ascot was still commonly worn for business with morning dress in the late 19th and very early 20th centuries.

In British English the more casual form is referred to as a day cravat to distinguish it from the highly formal dress cravat. It is made from a thinner woven silk that is more comfortable when worn against the skin, often with ornate and colourful printed patterns.

Tying methods[link]

For the Dress Cravat:

• The Ascot knot is used for the dress cravat and finishes with the ends under and over then in front of the chest held by a tie pin.
• The Cocolupa (Ruche) knot (formal type of cravat worn outside the shirt) like a four-in-hand knot for a modern tie

For the Day Cravat

• The simple knot, with the Ascot inside the shirt (more traditional for a 'day cravat')
• The simple knot, with the Ascot outside the shirt (less traditional for a 'day cravat')

Popularity of the day cravat[link]

The day cravat was worn in the early decades of the twentieth century as casual wear, often as sports wear such as when playing golf. The Duke of Windsor often wore one in this manner. It was regarded as an elegant form of casual dress. Ascots of the casual day cravat variety were popular fashion in the United Kingdom for teenaged and young adult males from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, coinciding with the mod and psychedelic movements. Emmy Award winning actor Jeremy Piven is known to wear an ascot tie, an unusual choice in his time.

Students at the United States Army Officer Candidate School wear ascots as part of their uniform: Black for basic officer candidates and white for senior officer candidates.^[1] Pararescue trainees upon completion of extended training day are given a blue ascot.

The character Fred Jones of the show Scooby-Doo wears an orange ascot. Michael Corleone, Al Pacino's character in The Godfather, wears an ascot in a few scenes, and is pictured wearing it on some versions of the Part II DVD. Don Knotts would often wear an ascot in his role as Ralph Furley on Three's Company. Comedian Drew Hastings has been known to wear an ascot often.

In Toy Story 3, Ken is shown wearing an ascot when he meets Barbie.

The garage rock band The Hives is well known for dressing in black and white suits, and wore ascots during performances for their album Veni Vidi Vicious.

References[link]

• Villarosa, Riccardo: The Elegant Man - How to Construct the Ideal Wardrobe. Random House, 1992. ISBN 0-679-42101-7

External links[link]

• How to tie the Ruche knot (The Ascot is referred to as a Cravat on this page)
• Neckwear guide (shows the differences between different formal cravat knots)
• How to tie the Ascot knot (shows how an Ascot knot is tied. instructions given in Polish)...

Look up ascot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Ascot (or Ascott) is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'eastern cottage'.

Places[link]

Ascot is the name of several places:

In Australia:

• Ascot, Queensland, suburb of Brisbane
• Ascot Park, South Australia, suburb of Adelaide
• Ascot (Ballarat), town near Ballarat in Victoria
• Ascot, Victoria (Bendigo), suburb of Bendigo in Victoria
• Ascot Vale, Victoria, suburb of Melbourne
  • Electoral district of Ascot Vale, former electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
• Ascot, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
  • Electoral district of Ascot, former electoral district of the Western Australia Legislative Assembly

In Canada:

• Mont-Bellevue, Quebec, which comprises the former town of Ascot
• Ascot Corner, Quebec

In India:

• Askot

In New Zealand:

• Ascot Park, New Zealand, suburb of Porirua

In the United Kingdom:

• Ascot, Berkshire
  • North Ascot
  • South Ascot
• Ascott, Buckinghamshire
  • Ascott House
• Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
• Ascott d'Oyley, Oxfordshire
• Ascott Earl, Oxfordshire

Finance[link]

• Ascot (Finance): Asset Swapped Convertible Option Transaction (ASCOT)

Facilities[link]

• Ascot Racecourse, a Berkshire, UK horse racing facility
  • Ascot Gold Cup, major race held at the Ascot racecourse.
• Ascot Racecourse, Western Australia, a horse racing facility
• Ascot Stadium, a facility in Gweru, Zimbabwe
• Ascot Park (speedway), a motor racing track in Los Angeles

Other uses[link]

Ascot may also refer to:

• Ascot tie, a cravat with wide square ends
• Ascot (brand), a boot company
• Ascot cap, a distinctive cap with a rounded shape
• Ascot was the name of cars from two different short-lived British car companies:
  • Ascot (1904 automobile) operating in 1904
  • Ascot (1928 automobile) between 1928 and 1930
• Honda Ascot, both a 500cc motorcycle first produced in 1983, and a type of car first produced in 1993.
• Ascot (1914 automobile), a short-lived French automobile company
• Ascot (cigarettes) (אסקוט), a brand of cigarettes popular in Israel in the 1960s
• Ascot class minesweeper, alternative name of the Racecourse class minesweeper, a type of ship built in 1916
  • HMS Ascot (1916), one of the ships of this class
• Ascot, a genericised brand of instantaneous water heater

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Look up tie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Tie may refer to:

• Necktie, a long piece of cloth worn around the neck or shoulders
  • Cravat, the forerunner to the modern tie
• Tie (draw), a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports
• Tie (engineering), a strong component designed to keep two objects closely linked together
• Tie (information technology), a concept to bind a distributed object to a class
• Tie (music), a musical notation symbol joining two notes without a break
• Tie (typography), a punctuation and diacritical sign
• Railroad tie, a rectangular support for the rail
• Simpson Tie or Strong-Tie, a connector used in building
• Interpersonal ties in sociology and psychology.

TIE may refer to:

• TIE receptors, specific types of cell surface receptors
• Tensilica Instruction Extension, a verilog like language that is used to describe the instruction extensions to the Xtensa processor core
• Telx Internet Exchange
• Times Interest Earned, a financial ratio
• Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd., an Edinburgh based public transport company
• Titanium Metals Corporation, based on its stock symbol on the New York Stock Exchange
• TIE fighter, a fictional spacecraft in the Star Wars universe

TiE may refer to

• TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Tie"
• All pages with titles containing "Tie"
• Blood Ties (disambiguation)
• Ti (disambiguation)
• Tye (disambiguation)

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