Word: ascots
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...custom-tailored neckties. It was rumored that he changed his ties six times a day. His conduct was motivated by a great principle: find out what suits you and always wear it. Berry Wall usually wore capes and coats of horse-blanket plaid, high horse-collars cinched with lush Ascot cravats. Sometimes he changed into one of his crimson satin lounging suits to lead one of his chows, always named either Chi Chi or Toi Toi, through the streets of Paris. Though Berry Wall was born in Manhattan (1861), where he was a society swell...
Died. Richard H. Otto, 59, executive of Brooks Brothers clothing store; of the effects of an operation; in Manhattan. Foremost expert in tying fashionable ascot ties, Cravateer Otto knotted wedding neckpieces for Astors, Rockefellers, Roosevelts, Wanamakers, Morgans; in a single June once tied 105 ascots...