Sentences with word «cravat»

A white, belted PVC catsuit channels the unforgettable legacy of The Avengers costume designer John Bates for Diana Rigg, while Shaw's rather «decadent dandy» look with silk cravat was a smart recurrence for gentlemen in the mid-sixties.

Holmes's retort to Taft's umbrage was to blame the Supreme Court's dullish opinions on the anachronistic notion that «judicial dignity required solemn fluffy speech, as, when I grew up, everybody wore black frock coats and black cravats.»

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Starting earlier this year, the upper Manhattan senator began to replace the long ties that are part of the generally accepted uniform for male lawmakers, aides and lobbyists with a colorful selection of more traditional cravats.

Joe, the biggest fashion risk - taker of the guys, goes all out with a polka - dotted cravat, leather pants, open white shirt, and a double - breasted suit jacket.

Accessorise this power look further with a plaid cravat.

Create stylish outfits for winters by teaming your colourful shirts with contrast V - neck sweaters and a tie, or with long overcoats and woollen cravats.

Anna Johnson, author of Savvy Chic, says «a waistcoat, a crisp pin - striped shirt, or a really big watch or cravat telegraphs power.»

Switching from Paramount to RKO Radio in the early talkie period, Dix starred as empire - building Yancey Cravat in RKO's only Oscar - winning film, Cimarron (1931).

Much of the film, which covers 40 years from 1889 to 1929, rests upon the considerable talents of the lovely Dunne, whose Sabra Cravat is followed from girlhood until she becomes a grand old woman of the West.

Costume designer Charlotte Walter adds to the ambience with a cascade of boldly colored cravats and vests and sports coats; she makes the film seem like a costume party long before Serkis stages an actual costume party.

The Scoop: 1953 Approved (whatever that means), directed by Roy Rowland and starring Tommy Rettig, Hans Conreid, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Jack Heasley, Robert Heasley and Noel Cravat.

Normally very formal and put together, Reynolds then trudges down the stairs wearing lavender pajamas under a tweed suit coat with a silk cravat for flair, using his attire to express his irritation at the disruption to his evening (Day - Lewis put this look together on his own).

But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt.

I once was surprised by my date turning up in a beret, and hollywood cravat, a kiwi guy who really wanted to be a French movie star.

Apart from the «Zagreb Time Machine,» starting mid-April, you can also witness the changing of the guard of the Honorary Cravat Regiment, every Saturday and Sunday at noon on St. Mark's Square.

In between was a short, rotund figure replete with gold - edged pince - nez, the black ribbon of which dangled past his upswept mustache, Van Dyke beard, winged collar, jeweled cravat ring, and an always - fresh white gardenia in his lapel.

and has given blazer and cravat wearers from middle England something to do, other than hack around a golf course 30 over par, by being able to complain about his Saturday Radio show...

The voice («plums in his throat» he told me), the Etonian education, the descriptions of him sporting a three - piece suit and cravat at Oxford university, let's face it, they set him apart.

Can the art detectives prove that a portrait of a man in a black cravat is one of the first pictures ever painted by British artist Lucian Freud?

A man sporting a dark blue silk cravat and a Vince Cable hat was leading the pro-Thatcher wing, and a man in an anorak and another with inventive facial hair were fronting the anti team.

Now the cravat (and where many businesses fall through the loophole) is that if a business has less than 50 employees they are not required to provide pumping time or space if it would cause «undue hardship» to the employer.

Apparently, we're either cravat - wearing, gin - sozzled pensioners sitting on piles of money on the Riviera while pining for the good old days of Rhodesia and Cathay or, alternatively, less wealthy pensioners playing bowls at English - only clubs on the Costa Brava.

Outside the party, the book has given politics - watchers a deal of amusement, not least because of the publicity images of Mandelson wearing a ludicrous combination of smoking jacket, red waistcoat and cravat, looking as if he's about to read Winnie the Pooh.

When I found this cravat, I kept that image in my mind and decided I would pay homage.

Must wear either a black or grey morning dress which includes a waistcoat and a tie (NO cravats), a black or grey top hat and black shoes.

Men, in 1700s colonial America, wore a loose white shirt, a waistcoat, breeches, stockings, a dress coat, and a cravat.

Yep a bow, and viola, it's a modern man's cravat.

For this outfit, I used a turtleneck as a play on a cravat, and some cropped chinos are a decent stand - in for breeches.

Monocle, moustache, cravat and cane.

And finally, versatility, whilst the main purpose for investing in a silk neckerchief maybe to wear it as a cravat (as I have done today), there are many many many more ways you can incorporate a silk neckerchief into your look.

It may have been the overcast day, the cravat of change that has coiled itself around me recently or just my nerves, but I was yearning comfort, and fell into the arms of an all black outfit.

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No quips, no cravats, one shag and barely a quantum (whatever that is) of fun, Marc Forster's short, bleak, sequential sequel to Casino Royale more than compensates on the action stakes: even before the opening credits the perma - pouting Craig has charged through boat, roof top and car chases like a really sulky rhino.

, trendy shirts and cravats (Philip owns a clothing store!)

And the comic book version made me nervous, and I would argue with Lauren [Shuler - Donner] about it, and she'd say, «He must have the ponytail and the cravat.»

I have to make the movie work, and Kevin Bacon with a ponytail and a cravat dressed as an 18th - century fop will look ridiculous»... Shaw walks the finest line, even if he did have that look in all the comics.

Christopher Walken's cravat!

Comb - overs, perms, cravats, disco, embezzlement and corruption — American Hustle has it all and then some.

Thompson, it should be remembered, did a superb job of adapting Jane Austen for the screen, capturing the delicate comedy of 18th - century manners and the even more delicate passionate emotions that lurked beneath bodice and cravat.

Was it your idea for him to wear a cravat?

Life is cheap, one feels watching Seven Psychopaths, and some of the comedy is too, but if you've always hankered to see Christopher Walken play a loftily spoken dognapper who wears a cravat, well, ignore the «spazzy shit», to co-opt the screenplay's own language, and give the film a go.

He steals dogs, leaving his cravat - wearing business partner Hans (Christopher Walken) to respond to the corresponding «Missing Dog» notice and «reluctantly» collect an often generous reward.

Both men's clothes have accents of white — Raoul's cravat, shirt and waistcoat, and the Phantom's mask — tentatively linking them to Christine through their sartorial similarities.

Even the seasoned 21st century journalists on the Auto Express team are not immune to the odd bout of motor show bewilderment - although it rarely gets the point when they need to loosen their cravats and break - out the snuff boxes - that's because even from year - to - year, the pace of change in the automotive industry is rapid.

Abigail leaned her head into his neck, into the smell of him in his cravat, and felt her feet swinging in the air with each of his steps, like riding a pony.