Ascot tie
An ascot tie or ascot is a neckband with wide pointed wings, traditionally made of pale grey patterned silk. This wide tie is usually patterned, folded over, and fastened with a tie pin or tie clip. It is usually reserved for formal wear with morning dress for daytime weddings and worn with a cutaway morning coat and striped grey formal 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. A more casual form of ascot is in British English called a cravat, or sometimes as a day cravat to distinguish it from the formal ascot or dress cravat. The casual form is made from a thinner woven silk that is more comfortable when worn against the skin, often with ornate and colourful printed patterns.
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History
The ascot is descended from the earlier type of cravat widespread in the early 19th 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.
Civilian use
Ascot cravat and pin (1904)
Boni de Castellane, unknown date
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John Singer Sargent in a pleated Ascot tie c. 1880
Military use
Students at the United States Army Officer Candidate School wear ascots as part of their uniform, black for basic officer candidates, blue for intermediate candidates, and white for senior officer candidates.[1] Pararescue trainees (upon completion of extended training day) are given a blue ascot. In the United States Navy the ascot is now worn for ceremonial purposes with Enlisted Full Dress Whites and Enlisted Full Dress Blue in the Ceremonial Guard. In the Dutch Army, it is a part of the uniform, for barrack use, the ascot is often in the weapon colors, and with a logo, and when in combat uniform, a DPM or desert version is used. Likewise the Royal Danish Army employs an ascot for the ceremonial version of the barrack dress, its colors vary between each company.[2]
Blue ascot of US Navy Enlisted Full Dress Whites
White ascot of US Navy Enlisted Full Dress Blues
Robert Duvall's "Lt Col Kilgore" tropical combat coat and signature yellow ascot from "Apocalypse Now"
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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers, wearing red ascots
Pakistani infantrymen of the Azad Kashmir Regiment, wearing red ascots
Sentry from the Indian Border Security Force, wearing a striped ascot
Sentry from the Turkish Presidential Guard, wearing a green ascot
President Saddam Hussein of Iraq wearing an olive green ascot as a part of his Iraqi Army field marshal's uniform
In media
- In Scooby-Doo, an American horror comedy cartoon franchise, the character Fred Jones wears a signature orange ascot, sometimes mistaken for a scarf. The look was part of the mod look for teenage and young adult men from the late-1960s era Scooby-Doo originates from,[3] and Fred's anachronistic retention of the ascot in some modern incarnations of the series becomes a source of comedy. [4]
- The Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann wore a midnight blue ascot tie on the Doctor Who special The Night of the Doctor.
References
- "M1 Steel Combat Helmet and Liner". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
For more than 60 years, students in the Officer Candidate School have worn the M1941 helmet liners as part of their uniform. However, when Class 5-03 graduate in July 2003, they became the last class to wear the distinctive helmets. From now on OCS students will wear a black ascot as a basic officer candidate, a blue ascot as an intermediate officer candidate and a white ascot as a senior officer candidate. The time-honored sight of OCS formations marching to class or the mess hall, accompanied by drums and the guidon, will be nearly indistinguishable from other troop formations on post. The only distinction will be the black or white ascots they wear bearing the entwined letters 'OCS'.
- "Uniform Regulations for the Army" (PDF). Army Operational Command (in Danish). DK: parawings.com. September 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- "Banned from the royal enclosure: The rise and fall of the ascot tie". BBC News. 2016-06-18. Archived from the original on 2021-12-06. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
- Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (Film). Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone (Directors), Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, and Misty Lee (Screenwriters). Warner Bros. Animation. 2010. Event occurs at 00:07:30-00:07:36, 00:26:44, and 1:11:21.
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Further reading
- Villarosa, Riccardo: The Elegant Man - How to Construct the Ideal Wardrobe. Random House, 1992. ISBN 0-679-42101-7
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