18.10.2022. - official tie day

In the beginning, the tie was the name for the scarf around the neck by which the Croatian soldiers who fought under the French flag in the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) were recognizable.

This "fashionable" detail aroused the great interest of Parisians who have always been interested in quality novelties in the field of clothing. The young French king Louis XIV. he started wearing a tie in 1646 when he was only seven years old and thus in a way set the fashion standard for all French nobles. They are soon
adopted this new item of clothing that was worn a la Croate ('in the Croatian way'), which also became the new root of the French word cravate.

In 1667, a special regiment of Royal Cravates was formed, and it was named after the Croats who were in
to its composition and wore a tie. It didn't take long for the tie to spread across Europe as a sign of culture and
elegance. French monograph Le grande histoire de la cravate (by Francois Chaille), edition
Flammarion, Paris 1994, explains and explicitly confirms the Croatian origin of the tie. Miss Cravatta's Italian monograph, published in 1996. in Como, the most famous European and world center for the production of cravats, the appearance of the cravat in France is undoubtedly connected with the arrival of Croatian horsemen at the time of Louis XIV.

Enciclopedia Britannica states with the noun cravat that it was formed from Crabata, Cravate, Croatian and appearance
ties date back to 1656. Although the tie was worn earlier, Britannica and many other encyclopedias consider that the first "official" use of the tie was recorded in 1656.
2008 The Croatian Parliament declared on 18.10. On tie day.

The tie around the Arena was a project of the Academia Cravatica institution carried out in Pula on October 18, 2003. The author of the installation was prof. Marijan Bušić. The installation of the Tie around the Arena, the best-preserved Roman amphitheater in the world, symbolically connected the past and the future, antiquity and modern civilization.
Zagreb celebrated Tie Day. Almost every monument in the city is decorated with a red tie. Red color
represents power, wealth, strength and passion.