And have you noticed that his neckties—wide neckties, really huge neckties, huge—come clear down to his belt buckle?
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I wore scarves around my neck as if they were neckties because Avril Lavigne wore neckties and my mom wouldn't let me wear neckties.
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Gabriel loved to dress up for school and wear neckties.
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There are the usual neckties and socks or breakfast in bed.
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They met twice a year; members all wore identical embroidered neckties.
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The truth is, Father's Day was sponsored by people who sold neckties.
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Rana Gujral is the CEO of TiZE Neckties embedded with QR codes.
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Were Donald Trump a client, Weitz would go straight for the neckties.
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Riches, fame, hotels, this beautiful wife, the world's greatest line of neckties.
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Mr. Trump's neckties tell us something about his social and political ties.
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Four more stolen neckties were found in his car, the police said.
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ROGER STONE, FORMER TRUMP ADVISER: But you have good taste in neckties, Sean.
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In the halls of the Capitol, neckties, not bow ties, are the norm.
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Those years appeared to be the peak of Vision's production of Trump's neckties.
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It's a well-known fact that the world's giraffes collectively possess thousands of neckties.
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Trump neckties, for instance, were at one time the best-selling ties in America.
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Do the servers' Tom Ford suits have elastic waistbands and clip-on polyester neckties?
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" Gerard Farrell: "Dumbest I ever had to contend with was twice-a-week neckties.
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Employees at the newly redesigned 14th Street hotel will soon be sporting Biden's creations, which include black waterfall blazers with purple houndstooth lining and white and purple neckties for women, and single-breasted black blazers paired with skinny black leather neckties for men.
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Many servers in neckties and long black aprons traverse the multiple chambers of this restaurant.
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Neckties and sweaters are expensive, but saving a life, even in 2017, is a bargain.
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Or are the neckties specially designed to hide the outlines of some stays around his midsection?
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Despite medicine's historical predilection for a dress code that projects professionalism, neckties aren't deemed essential by patients.
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And one commonly uttered joke about the holiday is that it was sponsored by people who sold neckties.
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His combines, as he called them, came to include crumpled newspapers and neckties and even a taxidermied goat.
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Margaret Thatcher was a devotee of the style, which had masculine structure (and recalled men's neckties) with feminine flair.
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Could it be that men's neckties are again expanding after an all-too-brief moment of discreet, clean lines?
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His entourage—donning bizarro American accessories like star-spangled neckties—turn into the greatest hype men of all time.
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From cheap neckties to television sets, Mr. Trump has benefited from some of the trade practices he now scorns.
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In Mr. Trump's case that would include earnings from "The Apprentice" and money made from selling steaks and neckties.
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Bolt, for example, introduced a lottery in March to sell its first spider-inspired silk neckties, at $314 each.
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President Obama was dissed for his "mom jeans" and President Trump, for his Scotch-taped and low-hanging neckties.
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"We have a Skype look," said Ms. Fendi, the rare designer to include neckties among her offerings this week.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "You'd think he would know how to pronounce it; it's on the label of all his neckties.
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My mother, who had revered President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the savior of Europe, loved "Ronnie," but not his neckties.
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Reporters from three Hearst publications even arrived in Rory Gilmore cosplay: skirts of various plaids, white blouses, and navy neckties.
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On the cover of WIRED's eighth issue, the Pillsbury Doughboy stands against a wall, flanked by two men wearing neckties.
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A 2004 study at the New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens cultured the neckties of doctors and medical students.
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No licensing deal was too demeaning; he would attach his name to steak, water bottles, neckties, mattresses, lamps, and vodka.
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They have thrown out — or cut up — Trump neckties, called off stays at Trump hotels, even stopped imbibing Trump wines.
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If they could have gotten away with impeaching him because his neckties were too long, they would have tried. Sen.
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When he sold neckties, one of his many merchandising gambits before he became president, it was a relatively innocent endeavor.
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The mostly male attendees sported dark suits with no neckties, as the weather alternated between partial sun and heavy rain.
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And we're not just talking neckties or outdoor grills (though there's nothing wrong with those gifts if that's what he prefers).
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Hermes, known for its printed silk scarves and neckties, will join French luxury group rivals LVMH and Kering in the index.
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ELIZABETH PRICE Two new videos from this Proustian English artist dive into the subliminal significations of neckties, coal and kohl. Dec.
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" As the four stood at the bar in suits and neckties, a bartender set up glasses and asked, "What'll you have?
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As props, they used wine glasses and Western-style neckties, which Red Guards had confiscated during house raids of the bourgeoisie.
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She then added a selection of neckties, bow ties and pocket squares to help job applicants step up their fashion game.
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When the team returned home from their road trip, Jackson found that Baltimore fans had sent him over two dozen neckties.
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For example, one could easily characterize a dress code requiring men to wear neckties as enforcing stereotypes about proper men's business attire.
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These sopped and bloated lawyers, these ambulatory neckties, these predatory fraternity Presidents, all of them lose their minds with every guitar lick.
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Now, read the article, "Ice Surveys and Neckties at Dinner: Here's Life at an Arctic Outpost," and answer the following questions: 1.
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A few months after the 2016 election, an unknown person entered the Morris home and took about 100 of Kiah's husband's neckties.
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Out went the ministerial limousine, neckties and French bureaucratese; in came second-class train travel, sweatshirts and irritating Franglais terms like "un helper".
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With suit lapels no longer resembling boning knives, it is only natural that neckties should move further away from the Reservoir Dogs collection.
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On paper, the incumbent Republican, from a state as red as Trump's dangling neckties, should be mopping the floor with his Democratic challenger.
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" He was also asked about his criticisms of Trump's appearance, including his penchant for long neckties: "I'm not making fun of the president.
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The NYPL's Riverside Library has rolled out a "Grow Up Work Fashion Library," which lends out neckties, handbags and briefcases to responsible patrons.
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Mr. Lauren, who started his career as a designer of oversized neckties, helped define American fashion for much of the late 20th century.
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He put on neckties, opened doors, and transformed his kitchen into a bar full of strangers and acquaintances, of which I felt a part.
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Today, pups across the country are putting on their best neckties and grabbing their attaché cases, because it's Take Your Dog to Work Day.
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To the Editor: Grown-ups wearing suits and neckties and a few in high heels, sitting on the floor shouting and raising their fists.
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These characters used to be largely unseen, Broadway Danny Roses lurking dimly behind the scenes in rumpled suits with mustard stains on their neckties.
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Pirate-inspired No one can forget Bowie's bold neckties and eye patches — a look that only he could pull off with flair and confidence.
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Mr. Hallyday arrived onto a pop scene that was dominated by well-spoken musicians in neckties, pitter-patting out songs full of saucy wordplay.
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In 1972, Ricci got his start designing and manufacturing men's neckties and selling them to international brands like Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.
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In Barcelona, Lois Orr noticed that neckties were returning, and Orwell heard the revival of such respectful forms of address as Señor and Usted .
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The Gandalf-esque staple of the New Hampshire political scene sports a long grey beard, a half dozen wild neckties and a leopard print cape.
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A year later, neckties with Mr. Davidson's images of moon rocks were released on the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar mission.
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Comparing Sam Kaplan's towering pyramid of sandwiches to Scheltens & Abbenes's masculine depictions of neckties and playing cards, you get a completely different feel from them.
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And so it began, in 2005, as a club night for people who liked sun, sand and swedgers, but also neckties and the Kaiser Chiefs.
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"I really love to have those bad taste things," he said — the kitschy sunflower print, the coordinated tracksuits, the neckties (on the beach, no less!).
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Items in the new plaid are available for purchase, including prayer shawls, neckties, kilts, kilt pins shaped like the Star of David, and plaid skullcaps.
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Hermes' leather goods division was particularly strong in the first quarter, while the unit that makes its famed squared silk scarves and neckties continued to lag.
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All we know is that Assange likes to dress the cat up in neckties and he has given the cat its own Twitter and Instagram accounts.
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On a night when my table seemed to be the focus of special attention, I looked and saw neckties and aprons at the other tables, too.
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In 2008, PVH began making Trump-branded neckties that, according to Forbes, quickly found their way into more than 400 retail stores across the United States.
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Nonetheless, it's a lark to see some of the sometimes dubious results: neckties, wallpaper and a building-size mock-up that was burned at Burning Man.
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But Mr. Massey, who favors tightly knotted neckties and crisp white shirts, was vague about how he would get his message across, falling into business-speak.
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We've seen bundled-up days, pretty summer whites, and all the trends, from neckties to bomber jackets, with the hashtag building up over 100 posts and counting.
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The NBA champion teamed up with The Tie Bar to launch his (eighth!) collection of neckties, bowties and pocket squares — a perfect gift option for any dad.
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For example, courts have held that companies may impose different hair length requirements on men and women, and may require men but not women to wear neckties.
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And Mooney is given to earnestly weighing the adjectives that best suit him, as if they were neckties: creepy (no!), funny (well, not really) and menacing (absolutely).
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Yang, an affable 44-year-old who eschews neckties and traditional rhetoric, trails front-running candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders by a wide margin.
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We've long exhausted cute but cheesy ideas like DIY massage coupons and neckties, so it's high time that we get serious because another necktie is not the answer.
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It's sort of like InfoSec Taylor Swift, but for physics instead of cybersecurity, and from a time when we thought wearing neckties like belts was a good idea.
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The trove, he said, was the stuff of deep meaning but little financial value: some old watches and neckties, his children's baby teeth, his brother's military burial flag.
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While jackets and neckties may have been requisite elements of a newsman's uniform in the 1960s, dress codes in the profession lapsed a lot in the intervening years.
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Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris proposed this week to ban neckties from the workplace, citing a health study that suggested the fashion accessory restricts blood flow to the brain.
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Gomes's exhibition shows abstract sculptures titled "Roots" (Raizes, 2018), which are created from used fabrics and found objects including clothes, purses, neckties, plush animals, pins, purses, and tree stumps.
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A big man in a rumpled suit, Matthews sports Jerry Garcia neckties that his wife buys for him on eBay, as well as bolo ties and occasionally an earring.
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Thom Browne's '20s-something The designer nodded to the 1920s for his fall/winter 2016 collection, showing overcoats, tartans and checks, neckties, ribbon trim, pearl necklaces and petite purses.
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I don't think we have to worry about anyone's neckties returning to the napkin-like dimensions witnessed at mid-'90s NBA draft nights and mid-'80s insider-trading trials.
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There were Trump Signature Collection neckties hanging in the window — when I got up close I could see the pattern was made of a series of mini "T" shapes.
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A tidy shelf of neckties at Trump's retail store on Fifth Avenue, which sells an assortment of Trump-branded souvenirs and grandfatherly outerwear, contained a veritable, if indirect, clue.
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Each image is absurd, exaggerated, with insults repurposed — and neutralized — as slogans on T-shirts, neckties and other incongruous places (video game consoles, computer screens, dresses and so on).
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There were pastel-toned sailor suits with leather neckties for men, and silk pajama pants worn under cropped denim pants so they fell limply over the ankle for women.
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The brightly lit stores, which locals call "combini," are ubiquitous and an essential part of modern Japanese life, offering everything from neckties to packaged "bento" lunches for city workers.
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After donning a neatly pressed dark blue suit, a white shirt and one of my dad's neckties, I set off to get close enough to Dempsey to get an autograph.
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In a group of so-called "Red Paintings," he was piling on more and more matter: newspapers, posters, neckties, doilies, a letter from his mother, a Twombly drawing, someone's underwear.
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Lauren started designing neckties with a wider cut — branding them the "Polo" cut — and selling them in New York department stores while also working at the men's boutique Beau Brummell.
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Now a mayor in Southern California says he wants to ban workplace dress codes that require wearing neckties, with the mayor claiming the fashion accessory restricts blood flow to the brain.
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The company only made 50 "limited edition" neckties and those who want to purchase one of them will have to sign up via lottery on the company's website, starting March 11th.
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R. Rex Parris, mayor of Lancaster, said he conceived the idea after reading a science blog that claimed neckties restrict 7.5 percent of blood to the brain, the Los Angeles Times reported .
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At the start of Mr. Baldwin's tenure, Morgan Stanley's partners and clients wore old-school neckties, lunched at the same clubs and relied on sure things: underwriting bonds, genteel integrity, assured profits.
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Truman & Jacobson, at 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue, across from the famous Muehlebach Hotel, sold shirts, celluloid collars, neckties, gloves, belts, Panama hats, cuff links, tiepins, socks and underwear (some in silk).
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It might be time to invest in Émile Durkheim neckties, because today's problems relate to binding a fragmenting society, reweaving family and social connections, relating across the diversity of a globalized world.
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The Heritage Foundation is a marketing company, a branding agency — it sells its own Heritage neckties, embroidered with miniature versions of its Liberty Bell logo — and a policy shop rolled into one.
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Our favorite looks mirrored the ambient strangeness: They were dreamy, exaggerated, apocalyptic; they reimagined gender to be at once aggressively feminine and very masculine, with sharp shoulders and feathers, bows and neckties.
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Opinion Columnist 'Tis the season when we inflict on one another neckties and perfumes that no one really wants, plus more than $1 billion in gift cards that are never even redeemed.
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At Lion City, I stood in front of a class of buzz-cut clean-shaven young recruits in white uniform shirts and narrow black neckties — the new checklist children of global aviation.
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When a 10-week-old kitten showed up as a gift from his children, in 2016, it was the perfect prop to help soften his image—especially when the kitty wore custom neckties.
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The members of the Beijing Lianhuachi Happy Sailor Club, complete with their enormous sound system, meet every morning to bring a whirlwind of flapping red neckties and music to the otherwise serene park.
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In decades past, businessmen were expected to wear neckties, but that's changed since the government started a "cool biz" campaign in 2005 to encourage companies to turn down air-conditioners and reduce electricity use.
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WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan real estate mogul who boasts about his wealth, maintains a fleet of aircraft and sells his own brand of neckties, paid respects on Sunday to an incongruous constituency.
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It seemed a sort of Pointillist, inductive assemblage, some of the items political and others personal, including an assortment of J.F.K.'s neckties and pieces of the scrimshaw that brought forth a whole book.
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She is the daughter of Jane M. Cahn and Gary Cahn of South Orange, N.J. The bride's parents own Private Stock Menswear, a manufacturer and retailer of neckties and other accessories in South Orange.
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It was a surprise, though a funny one, to see her take on the daily uniform, pinning neckties with nameplate Martine Rose pins and tucking them into pants with three waistbands and two belts.
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Our friends at the label say its neckties, hats, and jackets are sure to go fast, but we're also betting these cute embroidered jeans (at only $49) will be out of stock in no time.
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In addition to the 5000 products licensed by organizers to carry official logos, from neckties to bikinis to wine, black market peddlers have been selling everything from T-shirts to cocaine bearing bogus Olympic branding.
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In decades past, businessmen were expected to wear neckties, but that has changed since the government started a "cool biz" campaign in 2005 to encourage companies to turn down air-conditioners and reduce electricity use.
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The former Greek finance minister who shuns neckties and says the European Union is falling apart will advise Labour due to his negotiating experience during the euro zone debt crisis, said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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But in the context of growing antibiotic resistance and troubling rates of healthcare-associated infections (infection acquired while receiving medical care in a healthcare facility), neckties become a potential risk factor that can be readily eliminated.
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Visit the website for H&M, a fashion retailer, and you will find a staggering array of items for £9.99: hats, scarves, jewellery, belts, bags, herringbone braces, satin neckties, patterned shirts for dogs and much more.
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The man who emblazoned his surname on buildings, golf courses, airplanes and even bathrobes, cuff links, steaks, neckties and men's fragrances appears intent on inscribing "Trump" in large, bright letters in the history books as well.
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Most of us don't need more neckties or earrings, and it's far more thrilling to give a child a better brain, a malnourished family some protein-rich insect larva, or a hemorrhaging mom her life back.
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President Trump, as has been widely noted, tapes his neckties, wears them so egregiously long that they droop to his fly and has a tendency to leave his suit jackets unbuttoned to flap in the wind.
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Imagine a country setting where the smell of burned motor oil mixes with the fragrance of a Guerlain eau de toilette, where mechanics in greasy overalls and neckties tinker with the carburetors of old Jaguars and MGs.
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The visit was part of a weekend-long tour: Steyer traversed the first-in-the-South primary state in a large, blue campaign bus, the rear of which was decorated to mimic the candidate's trademark, tartan neckties.
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Yes, Father's Day was truly boosted by people who sold neckties (as well as dapper shirts and hats, of course), and in 1938 they expanded their efforts to become the National Council for the Promotion of Father's Day.
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While no clinical studies have demonstrated cross-transmission of bugs from a professional to a patient via neckties, they have been found to be contaminated by potentially pathogenic bacteria and to be possible sources for physician-transmitted infections.
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Hermes is also known for its printed silk scarves and neckties and makes perfume and watches, but its leather division - home to coveted handbags that are often only available through a waiting list - is its biggest revenue driver.
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The Binc's clientele look like they've stepped from a J. Crew catalogue, and no one raises her voice above a coy murmur, while the bartenders, stirring assiduously, keep to a formal, timeless dress code: white shirts, neckties, black aprons.
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Just days after slamming Trump for making neckties in China on the stage of the Democratic National Convention, Clinton hoisted a glittering red Trump tie over her head while addressing a group of workers at a factory in Colorado.
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The D'arce has exploded in popularity among MMA fighters in recent years but there have still only been eighteen D'arce choke finishes in the UFC (though the technique chains with the Peruvian and Japanese neckties, the guillotine and the anaconda choke).
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We have Trump University, the Trump Institute, Trump Steaks, Trump water, the Trump Tower, Trump neckties made in China and a Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. that will reportedly be soon embroiled in a lawsuit against the District of Columbia government.
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Polish leaders have been so eager for such a presence that they even offered to name a base Fort Trump, an unabashed appeal to the president's known predilection for branding everything from buildings to neckties to steaks with his name.
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Most fitting for a Genet-like takedown is Trump's messy empire, expertly tailored by its maker to showcase late capitalism's ritualized sadism — from its pencil tower buildings and power neckties to his beauty contest carnivals and reality TV puppet shows.
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Instantly recognizable for his ascot neckties and spider brooches, Villani in 2010 won the maths equivalent to the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, for what the award called "proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium of the Boltzmann equation".
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The 34-year-old guard, who will be returning to Chicago, his home city, as a member of the Bulls after 13 seasons with the Miami Heat, recently released his eighth collection of neckties with the Tie Bar, a Chicago-based brand.
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And off to one side of the room were the most unusual new additions to the library's collection: neutral-colored handbags and briefcases, and purple, blue and striped neckties, all of which can be checked out like books for up to three weeks.
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Bercow is a former Conservative Party member (the speaker gives up his or her party affiliation) who's become something of a Brexit celebrity because of his fun neckties and his very distinct way of calling for "order" in the House of Commons.
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He was so used to the casual dress style in Silicon Valley that he reluctantly resumed wearing neckties when he joined the button-down N.F.L. Unlike his boss, who has worked more than four decades at the league office, Lockhart has thinner links to football.
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When the elevator delivers you to the ninth floor of a stately financial district building, you'll be greeted by glasses of wine, sublime views of the Hudson, elegant photographs of African men and women and several tables displaying Rwandan handicrafts — wood carvings, brightly patterned neckties.
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If anyone recalls Josh Earnest, Mike McCurry or Scott McClellan — White House press secretaries who served Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — it is assuredly not because they wore unfortunate neckties or suits that looked like a big brother's ill-fitting hand-me-downs.
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They show that Trump's people are not monolithic, but they are a group with individual quirks: They wear neckties to gather at a bar called Sam's Place on Saturday mornings, and they ornament their homes with stuffed tigers and antique swords or clippings of the Dalai Lama and Yoda.
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Finally, once you've chosen the suit (or suits) that are right for you, then it's time to complete your business wardrobe with some high-quality dress shirts, neckties, and dress shoes, as well as oft-overlooked but no less important odds and ends like pocket squares and cufflinks.
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One overlooked cause of that opacity is the fact that known debiasing methods are especially weak in languages with grammatical gender––like Spanish, which puts neckties and women in the same grammatical class ( la corbata; la mujer) in contrast to, say, dresses and men ( el vestido; el hombre).
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Railway officials said parents in poorer parts of India took great pride in their school-going children, dressing them in clean white shirts and neckties, but that the drivers entrusted with taking the children to school were often poorly trained and paid, sometimes making the equivalent of $60 a month.
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"It was immediate," said Stephen Zhou, a manager at Shengzhou Vision Textiles, as we sat in a small, immaculate conference room on the third floor of his office building inside a gated compound just steps away from where hundreds of factory workers had cut, shaped, stitched, and finished Trump's neckties.
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Ties became part of the presidential uniform beginning in the late 1800s -- Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president, wore a long, light-colored tie for his official portrait rather than the black bowtie many of his immediate predecessors wore -- and the look of the 20th century presidency is one largely decorated by neckties.
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Razor-sharp 1980s tailoring and Kraftwerk-style neckties were worn with '70s-inspired corduroy and shearling outerwear; colorful '60s-esque geometric motifs were seen on chunky knitwear, utilitarian outerwear and modernized shirting — some adorned with Victorian ruffle trims; stirrup trousers and square-toed riding boots alluded to equestrians from a make-believe world.
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For more inspiring stories, read the latest issue of PEOPLE magazine Inside Raymond Nelson's closet at Memminger Elementary School in Charleston, S.C., you'll not only find the usual pencils, papers and art supplies, but something else that has become equally important to his male students' education: a rotating collection of suits, vests and neckties.
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The advice that Alice gave him—always to wear custom-made shirts with French cuffs and cufflinks, to make his long, ungainly arms look elegant rather than awkward; always to be photographed from the left side, because that side of his face looked better; to wear Countess Mara neckties—he followed slavishly for the rest of his life.
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Although every corner is crammed with tchotchkes, Kataria put up only a small fraction of the Gogian collection — commemorative presidential plates, mysterious ceramic figurines — and added touches of his own, including fabric from India to cover the walls, with leftover scraps used for servers' neckties and aprons, and a drawing of a cat that dominates a silk brocade alcove.
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WASHINGTON — When Donald J. Trump first tried a few years ago to line up a speaking slot at the marquee event for the conservative grass roots, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the organizers almost rejected him because they thought he was a fraud who only wanted a platform to promote his hotels, casinos, neckties and golf courses.
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He zeroed in on such classics as culottes, pussy-bow blouses and Mary Janes, to which he added the house's signature split toe style, and offered a whimsical take on clothes for leisure time spent outdoors: Brightly colored neckties, for example, had the dual appearance of feminine bows and sporty neckerchiefs, and a number of the models carried wicker handbags that looked a bit like picnic baskets.
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In the state flag-festooned environs of the American Cathedral in Paris, parochial-school pleated skirts and dresses were shrunken to infant proportions and then squeezed onto grown women; neckties roped and left to trail, noose-like, at the back; shoulders on shirts and jackets blown out to Frankenstein size or pinched up and in, to create a Quasimodo effect; and sweatshirts and sweatgowns emblazoned with slogans: "sexual fantasies" and "unskinny" and "May the bridge I burn light the way," among them.
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