bowtie

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Now, while the bowtie is a bit avant garde for your average lunch meeting at California Pizza Kitchen, we are of the mind that the time is right for every American man to buy the denim jacket he's always wanted, but wasn't sure he could pull off.

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  • It's subtle, but if you rotate the sunglasses clockwise and counterclockwise, and you keep looking, you will see it This yellow bowtie is called Haidinger's brush and it is how human eyes see polarized light. —  FSF,September2007
  • Neatly shaven and sporting a navy bowtie, the Oscar-winning director shared his views as he strode up the red carpet in Toronto on Saturday towards his latest accolade: a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. —  JAM! Showbiz
  • With his homespun wisdom and bowtie, Rangel claimed ignorance about the rental income situation in the D.R. (he said he called for more info, but they kept talking Spanish!), blamed the Republicans in Congress for being overly partisan and said he'll weather through it. —  Gothamist
  • That said, aren't all these chumps really running for second money up against rumor is true, but the prospect of seeing bowtie-shedding pundit and Jon Stewart whipping boy Tucker Carlson compete this season on —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • That leaves today, tomorrow, or Wednesday for costar Owen Wilson to shed his pesky clothing, don a jaunty bowtie, and -- subzero temperatures be damned! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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