{"id":14258,"date":"2016-08-28T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=14258"},"modified":"2016-08-28T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:14:57","slug":"today-is-national-bowtie-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/08\/28\/today-is-national-bowtie-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is National Bow Tie Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 28th is National Bow Tie Day!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today we celebrate the BOW TIE, a fashion piece that is near and dear to me!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/OgJw2AxNOdFza\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbowtieday.com\/bow-tie-history-types\/\">short history<\/a> of this super-cool and totally-sophisticated neckwear:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bow tie dates back in the 17th century back in Croatia. Here mercenaries would use neck wears that somehow resembled scarves to bind the collars of their shirts. These neck wears were called the cravats. In no time they were adapted the Upper Class French citizens who had the reputation of being highly influential in the fashion world at that time. The cravats evolved into today\u2019s neck wear; the bow ties and neckties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Fancy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Of course, a RED\u00a0bow tie is a classic choice and my personal favorite, but there are MANY other cool ones out there&#8230; LIKE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6220&amp;awinaffid=234169&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Flisting%2F457534574%2Fapple-core-bow-tie-bowtie-suit-men\">GREEN APPLE CORE bow tie<\/a>\u00a0made by\u00a0rommydebommy\u00a0says &#8220;I was hungry, but still wanted to look good.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6220&amp;awinaffid=234169&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Flisting%2F457534574%2Fapple-core-bow-tie-bowtie-suit-men\">Available on Etsy for $56.08<\/a>. (More <a href=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/08\/15\/look-cool-food-bow-ties\/\">food-related bow ties here<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6220&amp;awinaffid=234169&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Flisting%2F457534574%2Fapple-core-bow-tie-bowtie-suit-men\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14261\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-apple-bowtie.jpg\" alt=\"Green-apple-bowtie\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>Speaking of hungry, this M&amp;M&#8217;S bow tie is tricky. One one hand, it&#8217;s makes a strong statement. On the other hand, it would be difficult to not rip it off your neck and eat the candy inside!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14263\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mms-bow-tie.jpg\" alt=\"m&amp;ms-bow-tie\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greeks365.com\/2015\/01\/for-those-attending-college-fraternity-formals-neckties-or-bowties\/\">via<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>With this bow tie, you can go from &#8220;Normal to Formal&#8221; in seconds!\u00a0Store the <a href=\"http:\/\/mcphee.com\/products\/emergency-bowtie\">Emergency Bowtie<\/a>\u00a0in a safe place, so it&#8217;s ready to pop open for any and all &#8220;formal emergencies&#8221; that come up!<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mcphee.com\/products\/emergency-bowtie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14265\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/emergency_bowtie.jpg\" alt=\"emergency_bowtie\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/emergency_bowtie.jpg 600w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/emergency_bowtie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>Created by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/madeinforesthills.com\/the-bow-tie-collection\/\">Nicholas Tee Ruiz<\/a>, this bow tie made of guitar picks could help you out in a real &#8220;jam.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14267\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bowtiepicks_picasso.jpg\" alt=\"bowtiepicks_picasso\" \/>\n<p><strong>Of course, one of my new tee-shirt designs prominently displays my red bow tie!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2b8XKUF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"585\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14259\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pee-wee-bowtie-tee.jpg\" alt=\"Pee-wee-bowtie-tee\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2b8XKUF\">It&#8217;s available for $19.95<\/a>. Get two at that price!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope everyone has a GREAT Bow Tie Day!! If you get a chance, take a look at my recent &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/gallery\/bow-tie-trend-pee-wee-herman\">Bow-Tied Adventure<\/a>&#8221; in <em>GQ<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28th is National Bow Tie Day!! Today we celebrate the BOW TIE, a fashion piece that is near and dear to me!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a short history of this super-cool and totally-sophisticated neckwear: The bow tie dates back in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,10,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14276,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions\/14276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}