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This list of bow tie wearers includes people, things and fictional characters associated with bow ties.

Well-known people who become associated in the public mind with wearing bow ties can have a powerful affect the popularity of this type of neckwear, according to numerous observers, including writers and bow-tie sellers. Bow tie wearing by well-known men is often noticed and commented upon, a phenomenon that differs from commonplace celebrity endorsements in that it includes historical figures, including some long-dead famous people, and the topic is often brought up by writers and observers with no financial interest in promoting bow ties.

Contents 1 Use of famous bow-tie wearers in fashion commentary 2 Celebrities affecting bow-tie wearing 3 Commercial interests using famous wearers to encourage sales 4 Bow tie wearers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 5 Bow tie wearers in the twentieth century 5.1 Comedians 5.2 Architects 5.3 Commentators 5.4 Academics and those associated with the academy 5.5 Psychiatry and psychology 5.6 Physicians 5.7 Lawyers 5.8 Politicians 5.9 Other twentieth century bow tie wearers 6 Fictional characters 6.1 For comic effect 6.2 Comics and cartoon characters 6.2.1 Hanna-Barbera 6.3 Other fictional characters 7 Trivia 8 Notes

[edit] Use of famous bow-tie wearers in fashion commentary

Those who write about bow ties often mention famous people who wear them in the present, and often in the past. These writers often make the point that the image conveyed to others by a bow tie can be affected by associations with certain celebrities, but also of famous people in the past.

For example, answering a question about why bow ties aren't more popular, the "Style Guy" feature at Mens Style.com Web site went into the twentieth century history of the little piece of cloth to ask when it went from "the mark of the urbane independent, devil-may-care or rakish personality" to have "somehow begun to connote the opposite type." At every turn, the Style Guy mentions famous bow tie wearers, wondering if the association of bow ties with them affected the image of the bow tie. The six-paragraph article mentions these constant wearers or occasional wearers: Tucker Carlson, Karl Marx, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. But the decline in bow-tie allure may have come, according to Style Guy, when it became associated with unpopular or dangerous people (Nation of Islam wearers) or — especially — nerdy wearers: Jerry Lewis ("in nutty character"), Pee-wee Herman and Paul Simon (the former senator).^[1]

Thomas Fitch, writing in the Tuscaloosa News Web site:^[2] suggested that the goofy or nerdy associations some people make with bow-tie wearing could easily be dissolved if they became more popular with a contemporary celebrity perceived as cool:

If a prominent figure or celebrity, such as Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, starts wearing bow ties, would you consider him to be a goof ball as well? Probably not, because of his elite status and influence on our modern-day society. If Mr. Combs decides to become the spokesperson for us bow tie lovers, we definitely would transcend into new dimensions

Author and academic Joseph Epstein uses a list of famous bow-tie wearers to try to counteract the negative traits that author David Foster Wallace and Nicholson Baker attribute to bow-tie wearing. In a half-serious article, Epstien cites the famous in order to show that there is no strong connection between bow ties and nefarious traits:^[3]

First, though, let me organize a lineup of bow-tie wearers to establish a variety. The most distinguished of all, of course, was Winston Churchill, whose favorite was a fine floppy blue job with white polka dots. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a tall man, often adds a giant butterfly to his getup, which gives his appearance a light and rakish air. Saul Bellow has taken to wearing bow ties late in life. Former Sen. Paul Simon is a habitual bow-tie wearer, though, oddly, he seems never to have learned to tie them properly, for the right side of his ties never quite make it to full bow form. For diversity's sake, it would be good to have an NFL linebacker instead of Louis Farrakhan to round off this roster, but Churchill, Moynihan, Bellow, Simon and Farrakhan (a clip-on man, I surmise) perhaps provide sufficient diversity in themselves.

A negative commentary on bow ties can also use lists of the famous to bolster the commentator's opinion. Fashion Bloger Anne Metz rolled out a short roster of the bow tied for just this purpose:^[4]

To be honest, the bow tie has always struck me as an unoriginal way of looking original. In the absence of any real imagination, it's an acceptable substitute. If you take a look at a few of the famous bow tie wearers in history, you'll see what I mean:

Tucker Carlson

C. Everett Koop

Orville Redenbacher

Boo-Boo Bear

[edit] Celebrities affecting bow-tie wearing

According to an article in the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal, when a celebrity is noticed wearing bow ties, it can affect bow-tie sales:^[5]

Bow ties are often thought of as an older man's fashion choice, but more and more younger men are turning to them thanks to some celebrities such as local NBC meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz, MSNBC talk show host and commentator Tucker Carlson and Eagles football star Dhani Jones. [...]

Jones' image, particularly in an Eagles-frenzied area such as the Lehigh Valley and Berks County, has had an impact on the bow tie business, says Greg Weitzenkorn, co-owner of Weitzenkorn's men's clothing store in Pottstown.

According to the article, "Celebrity-wearers of the bow tie have certainly helped businesses", especially the example of one of the contestants on the second season of the NBC television show, The Apprentice. Raj Bhakta's fashion accessory helped boost sales at the Bow Tie Club, a Web-based tie store, according to owner Kirk Hinkley:^[5]

"He was suave, a good dresser," Hinkley says. "He's someone who is successful and it's a positive image for bow ties. We had tons of people who would send us Raj's picture and say they want a bow tie like his."

[edit] Commercial interests using famous wearers to encourage sales

Bow-tie sellers often cite famous people who have worn the neckwear as a way of encouraging more customers. Jack Cutone, co-founder of Boston Bow Tie, offered an example in a news release announcing the opening of his online store:^[6]

Cutone noted that there is ample evidence to support the uniqueness and stature of those who wear bow ties. In the past, famous bow tie wearers included Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, in addition to many other notable figures.

Beau Ties Ltd., an online bow-tie seller, has featured a "C. Everett Koop" bow tie complete with an endorsement by Koop, U.S. surgeon general in the Reagan administration.^[7] Carott & Gibbs, another bow-tie seller, has put a list of famous wearers on its bow-tie Web page.^[8]

[edit] Bow tie wearers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Bow ties were common in the nineteenth century: Pictures of U.S. presidents from Lincoln through McKinley commonly show them in bow ties.^[9] The most admired bow tie-wearing presidents from this period (Abraham Lincoln]]^[8][1][10], Franklin Roosevelt^[1][10] and Harry Truman^[1] " known by his trademark bow tie and steel-rimmed glasses"^[11]) have been picked out as exemplars of the fashion statement in the twentieth century to cast a favorable light on bow ties;^[10] bow tie-wearing of other presidents is generally not commented upon.^[12] Likewise, constant wearing of a bow tie was seldom commented on and did not form part of the public perception of figures such as the American inventor Thomas Edison or Communist theorizer Karl Marx^[1]. Pictures of all of these nineteenth century figures appear to show them wearing black (or dark) bow ties with dark jackets, and often with full beards, reducing the prominence of the neckwear, unlike today's rarer, often colorful bow ties.

[edit] Bow tie wearers in the twentieth century

[edit] Comedians

• Fred Allen,^{[citation needed]} American comedian
• Pee Wee Herman, played by Paul Reubens^[13]
• Stan Laurel comedian, typically wore a bow tie when in character^[14]
• Jerry Lewis ("in nutty character")^[1]
• Frank Muir, British comedy writer and broadcast personality "famous for his pink bow tie and mispronunciation", according to the BBC^[15]

[edit] Architects

• Le Corbusier, late, famous architect, wore "his trademark bow tie"^[16]
• Peter Eisenman,^{[citation needed]} noted architect and academic
• Walter Gropius late, famous architect, six of whose bow ties are kept by Harvard^[17]

[edit] Commentators

• Tucker Carlson American conservative commentator^[5][4] (now wears long ties on his MSNBC program)
• Robin Day, British television commentator and interviewer, always wore his "trade mark polka-dot bow tie"^[18]
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish "liberal conservative" commentator^{[citation needed]}
• George F. Will, American conservative syndicated columnist and regular on the This Week Sunday morning program on ABC television. He sometimes appears with a bow tie, sometimes with a long tie, as can be seen on the covers of his books.

[edit] Academics and those associated with the academy

• William Durden, president of Dickinson College^[19]
• E. Gordon Gee, president of Brown University: "When E. Gordon Gee was fifteen years old, he made a defining sartorial decision. He began wearing a bow tie."^[20]
• Eric R. Kandel, neurobiology professor and Nobelist with a "trademark bow tie"^[21]
• David M. Lee^{[citation needed]}, a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, late U.S. senator whose public image was associated with academic research^[3]"Whenever he headed to the Senate floor to speak," according to Hillary Rodham Clinton, "he kept the people of New York close to his heart and came armed with three signature items: his horn rimmed glasses, a bow tie, and a great idea."^[22]
• Bill Nye, television science program host, is a "gangly guy in the blue lab coat and bow tie"^[23]. On why he wears bow ties: "If you're working with liquid nitrogen and your tie falls into it, it's funny in a way to the audience but it's also — pun intended — a little bit of a pain in the neck."^[24]
• Murray Rothbard "always wore a conservative suit and bow tie."^[25]
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "famed for his trademark bow ties"^[26][27]
• Dr. Andrew Sorenson,]]^{[citation needed]}, president of the University of South Carolina

[edit] Psychiatry and psychology

• Aaron T. Beck, the psychiatrist known as "the father of cognative therapy" dresses in "his signature bow tie"^[28]
• Alfred Kinsey, the influential sex researcher, wore a "trademark bow tie"^[29]

[edit] Physicians

• C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General known for his "omnipresent red bow tie"^[30][4],

[edit] Lawyers

• Archibald Cox^[31] the Watergate special prosecutor, constantly wore "his trademark bow tie, neatly knotted as always"^[32]
• John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice who "rarely, if ever, wears any other neckwear on the bench"^[33]
• Joseph Welch^{[citation needed]}, who had a famous role in the Army-McCarthy hearings of the 1950s

[edit] Politicians

While politicians as a whole aren't noted for wearing bow ties, individual politicians who wear them constantly appear to get extra notice — from friends, foes and journalists (nicknames in boldface):

• Earl Blumenauer, U.S. Representative from Oregon, wears "his trademark bow tie"^[34]
• Winston Churchill^[3][6][10]
• Elio di Rupo, Belgian politician^[35]
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia, is "well-known for always sporting his trademark bow tie" has even been "dubbed 'an American in a bow tie' by his opponents".^[36]
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, late U.S. senator (and former academic)^[3]"Whenever he headed to the Senate floor to speak," according to Hillary Rodham Clinton, "he kept the people of New York close to his heart and came armed with three signature items: his horn rimmed glasses, a bow tie, and a great idea."^[37]
• Lester B. Pearson, Canadian leader, "with his trademark blue polka dot blue" bow tie^[10]
• Paul Simon (politician)^[3] late U.S. senator from Illinois
• Donald Tsang, Hong Kong leader — "The bow tie is such an integral part of Tsang's identity that he is nicknamed "bow tie Tsang," according to an Associated Press story^[38]
• Daniel Turp (no longer usually seen wearing a bow tie since his election at the National Assembly of Quebec)
• Anthony A. Williams, former mayor of Washington, D.C. and nicknamed "Mr. Bow Tie"^[39]
• Woodrow Wyatt^{[citation needed]}, a British Labour politician, published author, journalist and broadcaster

[edit] Other twentieth century bow tie wearers

• Raj Bhakta^[5], 2005 contestant on The Apprentice television program, later ran for Congress and lost
• Saul Bellow, late in life he often wore one^[3]
• Manolo Blahnik, shoe designer, sports a "signature bow tie"^[40]
• Chippendale Dancers^{[citation needed]}
• Bud Collyer, American television game show host in the 1950s and early 1960s, typically wore a bow tie^[41]
• Aleister Crowley^{[citation needed]}
• Keith Dunstan^{[citation needed]}
• Louis Farrakhan^[3]
• Vladimir Horowitz wore his "trademark bow tie"^[42]
• Steve Jobs,^[43] in the 1980s
• Dhani Jones^[5],professional American football player, sports one
• Matthew Lesko, American author and late-night television personality
• Irving R. Levine^[31][44][45], the former economics reporter for NBC television, known for his "trademark bow tie", appeared for the first time in public wearing a necktie for the Brown University commencement in 1994. "I needed help in tieing it," he later said.^[46]
• Charles Osgood, an American "veteran broadcast journalist with the trademark bow tie"^[47]
• Orville Redenbacher^[4], owner of an American popcorn business who appeared in commercials for it and had his image on the boxes — always wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a bow tie
• Jimmy Rogers [47]
• George P. Schultz, at least in the early 1970s^[31]
• Timothy White, American rock journalist and "debonair dandy who prided himself in his jaunty bow tie and white buckskin shoes" according to his obituary in The Independent^[48]

[edit] Fictional characters

[edit] For comic effect

Some fictional characters always sport bow ties, never any other kind of neckwear. In some cases this may be meant to confer a certain fussiness, pomposity or prissiness:

• Richard Gilmore, fictional character in "The Gilmore Girls" comedy TV program, played by Edward Herrmann^[49]
• Hercule Poirot, fictional detective^[50]
• Les Nessman, character in WKRP in Cincinnati television sitcom

[edit] Comics and cartoon characters

Bow ties are often put on characters in comics and cartoons perhaps to convey a sense of outlandish fun or humor:

• Dagwood Bumstead, character in Blondie comic strip^[51]
• The Cat in the Hat^[52]
• Donald Duck, Disney cartoon character^[53][8][10]
• Harvey, in the play and movie of the same name, the invisible, bow-tied, 6-foot rabbit whose portrait was shown in the play and movie with him wearing a bow tie^[54]
• Pee Wee Herman, played by Paul Reubens^[55]
• Krusty the Klown (cartoon character in The Simpsons^[56]
• Opus the Penguin, character in Bloom County comic strip^[57]
• The Penguin, in Batman comics, movies and television program, except for the 1992 Batman Returns in which he wore a jabot^[58]
• Jack Point, character in Judge Dredd comic books.^[59] The bow tie is part of his clown-like clothing.
• Waylon Smithers, cartoon character in The Simpsons^[60]
• Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog puppet^[61]

[edit] Hanna-Barbera

Many Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters wear them:

Boo-Boo Bear[62] Dixie[62] Magilla Gorilla[62]

Huckleberry Hound[62] Jerry, the mouse in Tom and Jerry (1975-1977)[63]

Mr. Jinks[62] Pixie[62]

Snagglepuss[64] Hokey Wolf[65]

[edit] Other fictional characters

These other fictional characters also sport bow ties, but don't appear to fall into any of the categories above:

• James Bond wears them on glamorous occasions such as at parties or in certain casinos.
• Conan Edogawa, alias of character Jimmy Kudo in "Detective Conan" manga and anime comics^[66]
• Toadsworth, Nintendo character^[67]

[edit] Trivia

Some popular product logos have been known by their bow-tie shapes:

• Chevrolet vehicles (wearing the "bow tie logo" since 1913)
• Budwieser beer had a "bow tie logo" (looking like overlapping red triangles) in the twentieth century.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} [1]Style Guy column at MensStyle.com Web site (associated with GQ magazine), dated September 2003, accessed January 17, 2006
2. ^ [2]Fitch, Thomas, "Why must the bow tie die?", article dated November 6, 2006, Dateline Alabama Web site, which appears to be a College newspaper at the University of Alabama, accessed January 17, 2007
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} [3]Epstein, Joseph, "Fit to Be Tied: The enemies of civilization find a new target, just below the chin, dated Friday, May 4, 2001, the day (Friday) indicates the article appeared in the Wall Street Journal weekend leisure section, but not necessarily; the article is at the OpinionJournal.com Web site, run by the Wall Street Journal, accessed January 17, 2007
4. ^ ^{a b c d} [4]Metz, Ann, "Never trust a man in a bow tie" posted at StyleDash Web site November 2, 2006 at 12:43 p.m., accessed January 17, 2007
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} [5]Sheehan, Jennifer, "Bow Ties Come Bouncing Back into Fashion", Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal, August 15, 2005, as reprinted at the eDiets Web site, accessed January 17, 2007
6. ^ ^{a b} [6]"Boston Bow Tie Launches Web Site to Market Distinctive and Stylish Bow Ties With a Traditional Flair" news release posted on Business Wire, December 30, 1999, according to the LookSmart FindArticles Web site, accessed January 17, 2007 This Web site appears to no longer exist.
7. ^ [7]News release from Beau Ties Ltd., dated October 3, 2006 and titled "Dr. C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General, and Beau Ties Ltd. Create Birthday Bow Tie"
8. ^ ^{a b c} [8]Web page titled "The Definitive Bow" at the Carrot & Gibbs Web site, accessed January 17, 2007
9. ^ A Google Images search will confirm this
10. ^ ^{a b c d e f} [9]Saunders, Allan, "The Mistress and the Bow-tie Boys", The Toronto Globe and Mail, undated article, although the Web address indicates it likely appeared on January 8, 2007 and not August 1 because it was accessed January 18, 2007: "Consider the fact that some of history's most famous men wore bow ties -- Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Abraham Lincoln -- even our own Lester Pearson with his trademark polka dot blue. Don't forget Donald Duck who dared to be different from other ducks with his red bow."
11. ^ [10]Web page titled "Mr. Truman's War" at University Press of Kansas Web site, accessed January 18, 2007
12. ^ As any Google search will confirm.
13. ^ (Image:Pee-Wee Herman (1988).jpg) shows the character in typical neckwear
14. ^ [11]Web site for Frankel's Costume, describes its ventriloquist dummy resembling Laurel as "This Stan Laurel Doll has been faithfully reproduced with his blue overalls, a long-sleeved white shirt, and a red, polka-dotted bow tie.", accessed January 18, 2007
15. ^ [12]"UK: Comedy writer Frank Muir dead at 77", BBC News Web site, January 2, 1998 "Published at 17:16 GMT", accessedJanuary 18, 2006
16. ^ [13]Web site of the Tennesee Valley Authority, Web page titled "A Reign of Harmony", accessed January 18, 2007
17. ^ [14] While not absolutely clear, this Web page indicates Gropius was known for his bow ties: Web page titled "Stories from 'The Chronicle': Cataloging Harvard's Ephemera", article by Lawrence Biemiller at Biemiller's Web site, the Web page indicates the article is from "The Chronicle of Higher Education. Published January 23, 2004." accessed January 18, 2006 "After three years of work, Ms. Norris not only knows how many of Walter Gropius's bow ties Harvard has (six), but also where they are (the Graduate School of Design)"
18. ^ [15]"Sir Robin Day: 1923-2000" article at BBC News Web site,August 7, 2000, accessed January 18, 2007
19. ^ [16]"Haute Stuff" item in Dickinson Magazine, "Volume 82 Number 1", Summer 2004, accessed January 18, 2008: "President William G. Durden ’71 is known around campus for his strong personal fashion sense—his penchant for wearing bow ties as well as his different colors of glasses frames"
20. ^ [17]Boucher, Norman, "E. Gordon Gee: Introducing the seventeenth president", article in Brown Alumni Magazine, September/October 1997
21. ^ [18]Burke, Adrienne, "Gazing at Science Stars: An Ansel Adams protégée captures the nature of brilliance", article in Science and the City webzine of the New York Academy of Sciences, September 16, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007
22. ^ [19]Clinton, Hillary Rodham, speech reprinted at the Democratic Leadership Forum Web site, Web page titled "Statement of Senator Clinton in Tribute to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan", March 26, 2003
23. ^ [20]Davis, Pamela, "Bill Nye, the successful guy", article in The St. Petersburg Times, October 11, 1999, accessed January 18, 2007
24. ^ Humor is a part of his program, so the bow tie may spoof academics and associate him with comedians.[21]Rahner, Mark, "Eye to eye with Bill Nye the Science Guy", article in The Seattle Times, April 26, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007
25. ^ [22]Web page titled "The Life and Times of Murray N. Rothbard [...]" at Libertystory.net Web site, accessed January 18, 2006
26. ^ [23]Anecdotage Web site, "Bow tie" item, accessed January 18, 2007
27. ^ [24]Sullivan, Kevin, "40 Years After Missile Crisis, Players Swap Stories in Cuba", article in The Washington Post, October 13, 2002, page A28, as reprinted at the Latino Studies Resources Web site. From the article: "Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. looked out through thick glasses, wearing his trademark bow tie"
28. ^ [25]Chamberlin, Jamie, "An historic meeting of the minds: The fathers of cognitive therapy and rational-emotive behavior therapy exchanged banter at APA's 2000 Annual Convention", article in the Monitor on Psychology, Volume 31, No. October 9, 2000, American Psychological Association Web site, accessed January 18, 2007
29. ^ [26]Gostin, Nikki, "A prude awakening" article in The Age, January 5, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007]]
30. ^ [27]News release from Beau Ties Ltd., dated October 3, 2006 and titled "Dr. C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General, and Beau Ties Ltd. Create Birthday Bow Tie"; from the news release: "Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. Surgeon General easily recognized by his omnipresent red bow tie, served from 1982 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan [...]"
31. ^ ^{a b c} [28]Television News Archive Web site at Vanderbilt University, Web page titled "NBC Evening News for Monday, Jul 20, 1973", accessed January 17, 2007, "Abstract: (Studio) NBC's Irving R. Levine known for bow tie ... John Dunlop, Archibald Cox and George Shultz dogmatically disregard faddish widths", for "widths" what was probably meant was "whims"
32. ^ [29]Barnes, Bart, "Watergate Prosecutor Faced Down the President", The Washington Post, front-page obituary, May 30, 2004, accessed January 18, 2007
33. ^ [30] Clarity, James F., and Weaver, Warren Jr., "Briefing: Bow Ties and Skullcaps", The New York Times, January 17, 1986, accessed January 18, 2006 (both years are correct)
34. ^ [31]Pierce, Neal R., columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, "Smart Growth's Johnny Appleseed", column, February 21, 1999, accessed January 18, 2007
35. ^ [32]Blog (unnamed?) of David Rennie, Brussels foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph at the newspaper's Web site, in a post dated May 29, 2006, 17:04, describes Rupo as "the bow-tie wearing Socialist" (accessed January 17, 2006); Every picture in the first several pages of a Google Image search (accessed January 17, 2006) of "Elio di Rupo" shows him, if in a tie, in a red bow tie, seeming to confirm a statement in the Wikipedia article about him that he is known for bow-tie wearing
36. ^ [33]Web page titled "Ilves wins Estonian presidency", dated September 23, 2006, at Web site of JBANC, the Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc., accessed January 18, [[2007
37. ^ [34]Clinton, Hillary Rodham, speech reprinted at the Democratic Leadership Forum Web site, Web page titled "Statement of Senator Clinton in Tribute to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan", March 26, 2003
38. ^ [35]No byline, "Tsang loves his bow ties", article attributed to the Associated Press appearing in The Age, July 15, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007
39. ^ [36]Powell, Michael, "'Mr. Bow Tie' Becomes the Bull's-Eye", The Washington Post, August 7, 1998, Page A01
40. ^ [37]Anniss, Elisa, "Manolo Blahnik's interview", FN Footwear News, "Vol. 62 NO 22", dated May 29, 2006
41. ^ [38]Web page titled "Those Were the Days: December 18" at the 440 International Web site, accessed January 18, 2007, from the Web page: "1956 - One of America’s great panel shows debuted on CBS-TV. Bud Collyer, bow tie and all, hosted To Tell the Truth."
42. ^ [39]Kirshnit, Frederick L., "Instruments of Mass Seduction III" article at "Concerto.net" Web site dated June 2, 2004, accessed January 18, 2007
43. ^
44. ^ [40]Levinger Web site, Web page titled "How They Work: Gifts of a Journal" by Steve Leveen: "With his serious reporting on NBC and ubiquitous bow tie, Irving R. Levine became a television icon to a generation of Americans.", accessed January 17, 2007
45. ^ [41]The Business News Luminaries Web site, Web page titled "Irving R. Levine" One sentence states: "The economics assignment gave Mr. Levine a mild-mannered persona, and his trademark bow tie did little to subtract from a Mr. Peepers image." accessed January 17, 2006
46. ^ [42]Brown Alumni Magazine Web page titled "Journalism", section titled "Irving R. Levine '44", dated November/December 2000, accessed January 18, 2008
47. ^ [43]Lewis, Patricia, "Taking a Bow: The joie de vivre of Charles Osgood", Delta Sky airline magazine Web site, accessed January 18, 2007
48. ^ The Independent, accessed January 18, 2007
49. ^ Photos of Gilmore on the program's official Web sites at ABC Family Network and WB all show the character in a bow tie, including at this page [44], and in a Google Image search ("Richard Gilmore" + "Gilmore Girls") all but one photo showed the character in a bow tie; accessed January 17, 2007
50. ^ At least as portrayed in Murder on the Orient Express film and by actor David Suchet on television, Poirot wears a bow tie, whether or not he typically wears one in the original Agatha Christie novels
51. ^ This "logo" or publicity image, shows Bumstead in typical red bow tie; an image at the King Features Web site describing Bumstead [Image:Blondie1.gif] also uses an image with him in the same red bow-tie; Google Image search of "Dagwood Bumstead" on January 17, 2006 shows the comic character as well as television character wearing bow ties
52. ^ (Image:Seuss-cat-hat.gif)
53. ^ This comic book cover (Image:Lostintheandes.jpg) and this still from an early cartoon (Image:Donald duck debut.PNG "The Wise Little Hen") show what clearly looks like a bow tie, although it may be another kind of tie worn with the character's typical sailor suit
54. ^ [45]David Shulman Autographs Catalog Web site, Web page titled "Entertainment: Including Cinema & Theatre", accessed January 18, 2007. The store was selling an autograph of Jimmy Stewart; part of the description (emphasis added): "In black marker, he has drawn the rabbit’s elongated face, under which he has also drawn Harvey’s signature striped bow tie"
55. ^ (Image:Pee-Wee Herman (1988).jpg) shows the character in typical neckwear
56. ^ (Image:Krustytheclown.gif) promotional image which can be expected to render him in typical outfit, shows him with a blue bow tie
57. ^ [46] Berkley Brethed Web site, Web page titled "Favorite Strips", Opus is wearing a red bow tie in each; according to Wikipedia article Opus the Penguin he has been known to switch to a regular tie when running for public office
58. ^ See any of the pictures in the Wikipedia article Penguin (comics) where he sports a bow tie, except in the 1992 movie, as the article notes
59. ^ See Image:Jackpoint.jpeg, "Image originally appeared in Judge Dredd Megazine 222, August 2004."
60. ^ (Image:Waylon Smithers 1.png) portrays Smithers in his typical bow tie
61. ^ (Image:Triumph bestofdvd.jpg)DVD cover picture showing Triumph with golden bow tie; every picture in the Wikipedia article Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog shows him in a golden bow tie
62. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Image:Arkiv hannaybarbera.jpg cartoon character shown in picture wearing a bow tie, part of that character's typical costume: Huckleberry Hound 8th row, farthest on right); Boo-Boo Bear (7th row, second from right); Pixie, (bow tie tied) Dixie (bow tie untied) (5th row, farthest on right); Magilla Gorilla (5th row, second from left); Mr. Jinks (4th row, third from left)
63. ^ according to Wikipedia article for Tom and Jerry, which shows the title card for the "Tom and Jerry Show" in 1975 with red bow tie on Jerry and cites three overall sources in the References section of the article: Adams, T.R. (1991); Tom and Jerry: Fifty Years of Cat and Mouse Crescent Books; Barrier, Michael (1999) Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press); Maltin, Leonard (1980, updated 1987). Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-452-25993-2.
64. ^ This title card (Image:Snagglepuss.jpg) for the Snagglepuss cartoon shows common wear for the character; the tie appears to be a kind of bow tie
65. ^ (Image:Hokeywolf.jpg) in the title card of every show the character is seen wearing his typical bow tie.
66. ^ These two Web pages, one for Conan Edogawa, the other for Jimmy Kudo, both show the character wearing a bow tie; since the tie is shown on the character on the main page for that character, it seems extremely likely that the bow tie is typical wear for that character (accessed January 17, 2006): Case Closed Jimmy Kudo page; Case Closed Conan Edogawa page
67. ^ (Image:Toadsworth.jpg), a promotional image which can be expected to render him in typical outfit, shows him in a red bow tie