Bolo tie

A bolo tie (sometimes bola tie or shoestring necktie) is a type of necktie consisting of a piece of cord or braided leather with decorative metal tips or aglets (aiguillettes) secured with an ornamental clasp or slide.

Bolos are easy to make, using attractive flat objects such as lady's pins, coins, plastic netsuke reproductions, polished stones, Christmas tree ornaments, refrigerator magnets, etc. Cords of leather and cordage stock, clips and tips, called "findings" are widely available from jewelry supply firms. A hot-melt glue "gun" quickly and easily joins the parts.

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In the United States, bolo ties are widely associated with Western wear, and are generally most common in the western areas of the country. Bolo tie slides and tips in silver have been part of Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni silversmithing traditions since the mid-20th century. ^[1]

The bolo tie was made the official neckwear of Arizona in 1971. New Mexico passed a non-binding measure to designate the bolo as the state's official neckwear in 1987. On March 13, 2007, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law that the bolo tie is now the state's official tie.^[2] Also in 2007, the Bola tie was named the official tie of Texas by the Texas Legislature.^[3] Politicians and officials from western states will often wear them, such as Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.

In the United Kingdom, bolo ties are known as bootlace ties. They were popular with 1950s Teddy Boys, who wore them with drape suits.^[4][5]

Along with other 1950s fashions, bolo ties were revived as part of the Rockabilly look in the 1980s. The bolo tie returned as a popular fashion accessory in the fall of 1988 when male Hollywood stars would be frequently found wearing them. Chain stores like Jeans West and Merry-Go-Round sold multiple choices for all occasions.

During the 1980s and 1990s bolo ties, some elegant and expensive, were sold in Japan, Korea, and China. Some had fancy, hand-made cords and unusual tips. Sales overseas skyrocketed post 1970's, this was due to the overflow from the United States, where it had fallen out of fashion.

Origins[link]

Silversmith Victor Cedarstaff of Wickenburg, Arizona, claims to have invented the bolo tie in the late 1940s, and later patented^[6] his slide design.

According to an article in Sunset:

Victor Cedarstaff was riding his horse one day when his hat blew off. Wary of losing the silver-trimmed hatband, he slipped it around his neck. His companion joked, "That's a nice-looking tie you're wearing, Vic." An idea incubated, and Cedarstaff soon fashioned the first bola tie (the name is derived from boleadora, an Argentine lariat).^[7]

Boleadoras or bolas (from Spanish bola, "ball") are throwing weapons made of weights attached to the end of cords.

It is also said that the bolo tie is a North American pioneer creation that dates back to between 1866 and 1886. There is a bolo tie on display at a trading post in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, said to date back that far.^{[citation needed]}

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bolo ties

• Interview transcript dealing with the bolo tie.
• Montana Leader Defends Bolo Ties
• "Man in the Moon" bolo tie by Haida artist Donnie Edenshaw, 2003, in wood, argillite, abalone shell, shell, and leather, in "Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest", American Museum of Natural History exhibit, 2004–2005

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Bolo may refer to:

• Bolo, a wild flower.
• Bolo bat, a child's toy
• Bolo knife, a Filipino knife similar to the machete
• Bolo punch, a wide sweeping lower cut used in boxing
• Bolo tie, decorative string tie
• A community or tribe in the 1983 book bolo'bolo by Swiss author P.M.
• Bolo, a slang term for Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War
• BOLO, an acronym used by law enforcement, standing for "Be on the lookout", often used as “bolo alert”; an all-points bulletin
• Bolo snake, an extremely rare snake, found only in Fiji
• Boloma Block
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In the military:

• Douglas B-18 Bolo, a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s
• Bolo Airfield, a World War II airfield on Okinawa
• Operation Bolo, a United States military operation during the Vietnam War
• Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
• Bolo, a variant of the Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol

Space

• A bolo is a type of spinning space tether

Places:

• Bolo, Central African Republic
• Bolo, Ethiopia, a village in Ethiopia
• Bolo, Tibet, a township in Tibet
• Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois
• Bolo River, Romania
• O Bolo, Galicia, Spain
• Ogu/Bolo, a Local Government Area of Nigeria

People:

• Bolo Yeung, Chinese actor and martial artist
• Bolo (footballer), a Spanish footballer
• Bolo (prince), Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty
• Bolo, nickname for Roberto Luongo, a National Hockey League goalie
• Bolo, nickname for Lashmer Whistler, British general of the Second World War

In entertainment:

• Bolo (tank), a type of artificially intelligent tank in the science fiction of Keith Laumer
• Bolo (1982 video game), Apple II tank game
• Bolo (1987 video game), simulation of a tank battle
• Bolo (Breakout clone), an enhanced clone of the Breakout computer game for the Atari ST

Other:

• Bolo, a cake in Brazilian cuisine

See also[link]

• Bola (disambiguation)
• Bollo (disambiguation)
• Bolas, a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey

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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.

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• 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

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• TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)

See also[link]

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

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