He wore a double-breasted pin-striped suit, a funereal, mauve four-in-hand tie.

Worn over hip-slung trousers, narrow in the leg, or beneath brass-buttoned coats inspired by the British Navy, the suits had fat four-in-hand ties emerging from the throats of their jackets like voluptuous blooms.

A little tuft of dark-brown hair spilled over the top of his clip-on four-in-hand tie.

Instead, they wore a four-in-hand tie, all but cementing the new hipper look in formal wear: what one might call the dinner suit.

For these trips he wore an old dark suit whic Van Doorn had given him, shoes, a white shirt with high collar, four-in-hand tie and a stiff felt hat made in England.

However, they wear white shirts and orange four-in-hand ties instead of a ribbed imitation of a sailor's striped shirt.

A large four-in-hand tie accompanied the wing-tipped collar beneath his smooth-shaven chin.

Harvard aides and marshals, at commencement, wear black top hats, white four-in-hand ties and cutaway coats for men, and white dresses and crimson sashes for women.

Today, four-in-hand ties are part of men's dress clothing in both Western and non-Western societies, particularly for business.

He wore a wine-red smoking jacket over his white shirt and four-in-hand tie.