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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

342.0. "what was its name??" by MORRIS::ZARLENGA (You're a slacker, McFly) Sun Apr 05 1987 15:32

    	What's the western style tie that looks like a belt buckle
    on a strand of rawhide called?
    	I though it was a "bolo", but can't find it in the dictionary.
    
    -mike
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342.1MYCRFT::PARODIJohn H. ParodiMon Apr 06 1987 10:044
  I think they are called "string ties."

  JP
342.2yupLYMPH::LAMBERTISAM I amMon Apr 06 1987 10:473
   "Bolo" is correct.  It's in Webster's as "bolo tie".  

   -- Sam
342.3all tied in knotsCREDIT::RANDALLBonnie Randall SchutzmanMon Apr 06 1987 13:2811
    Yes, it's a bolo tie in the west whether the dicionary likes it
    or not. 
    
    A string tie is another Western style of tie -- it's a narrow tie like
    a ribbon, usually worn with a Western-cut white shirt. Gray with a gray
    suit, black with a black suit. The shirt often has lace or ruffles. You
    see them a lot in old Westerns (remember Yancey Derringer? He wore them
    all the time) but not a whole lot on real people.
    
    --bonnie