Plate D.
Fig. 24. De Chasse. Fig. 25. En Valise. Fig. 26. Coquille. Fig. 27. A la Colin. Fig. 28. A la Parresseuse. Fig. 29. A la Talma. Fig. 30. A l’Italienne. Fig. 31. A la Russe. Fig. 32. Jesuitique.
Ingrey & Madeley Lithog. 310 Strand.
LESSON XV.
Eighteen different methods of putting on the Cravat.
[Plate D, figures 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32.]
Although this lesson comprehends eighteen different methods of wearing the Cravat, yet as they are nearly all derived from some of those already explained, it is but little longer than any one of them. It is placed nearly at the end of the work as it is absolutely necessary that the thirteen first should be well studied and digested, previous to entering upon this; for it would be as vain for a veteran fashionable to attempt the formation of any of the following, without having previously made himself acquainted with the preceding, as for a young mathematician to attempt an explanation of the third book of Legendre, without having studied the first and second.
Cravate de Chasse.
This Cravat is by some élégans called à la Diane, although it is a kind of poetical license to suppose that this rather unfashionable Goddess wore one. It is doubly crossed on the neck, as shewn in the Cravate à l’Américaine ([plate C, fig. 13]). It should not be starched, and must be folded plainly, as shewn in [plate A, fig. 1]—the colour must be deep green, or feuille morte, which is more recherché.