A
bow tie is a neck tie with two loops forming a bow shape.
Bow-ties
have been a fashion statement for cult-TV characters for decades.
Jimmy
Olsen (Jack Larsen), for example, wears a bow-tie as part of is unofficial
uniform at The Daily Planet on The Adventures of Superman
(1951-1959).
As late as Smallville (2001-2011), the bow-tie
recurs as an accessory for that character.
On
the original Batman (1966-1968) series starring Adam West, for example, The
Penguin (Burgess Meredith) wears a stylish purple bow-tie.
More
recently, bow ties have become “cool” again, thanks to Matt Smith’s Eleventh
Incarnation of the renegade Time Lord known as The Doctor on Doctor
Who (2005 – present).
On a personal note, my son, Joel -- who is nine -- wears a bow-tie as part of his school uniform every school day, inspired, in part, by Matt Smith.
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