The interesting history and full of adventure stories of tie based on speculations by scholars and historian have written and they inspired us to have a look at this eventful history.
There are several different speculations and stories behind the tie. It was more like scarves and gradually turned to ties and bowties with changes. Some believe that french have expanded the tie from croats in 1656, under Louis XIV period. Here it is noteworthy, based on European sources, in a image of Ivan Gundulic (famous poet from Croatia), which was set in 1622, he is the first person who used the tie. Right in the same year Ivan Gundulic died, Louis XIV was born and he continued to use the tie. Using the tie by the most powerful king of the Europe was a good excuse for tie to be fashionable, even Louis XIV women had to wear it. The tie made of muslin and lace became popular among all segments just with a different, the more close a person was to the courts of France the tie was longer.
There are many speculations that are connecting the tie to Iran. To separate the Croat soldiers of the French army from army officers a sign created, in 1677. They all had to use a scarf which was similar to the tie and they had inherited from their parents. But the sign was the difference between the types of the scarves. Soldiers scarves was made of coarse materials and officers wore scarves made of fine cotton and silk. These scarves were used for wound closing, it was necessary and useful for the war. The ancestors of these Croatian soldiers were immigrants from Persian empire who were living in southeastern Europe. There were originally a group of Iranian of the old Khorasan(one of the cities of Iran), which used to be called “Khooravat” or “Khoorabad”. We can see the connection of them with Iran through the beautiful fabrics which are similar to Iranian fabrics. Due to Iranian Avesta book which was much older than all these events, Tie in Iranian language means (Kravat) and it comes from the word (Koeres) or (Koeret). Koeret was on of twelve necessary subjects required of fighters. A written stone called “Naqsh-e-Rajab” located near Shiraz, shows an image of Shapoor I ( Ardeshir Papakan’s son) that he used something like a tie. Tie can also be seen in several designs at Taq-eBostan and ancient coins.
The other story behind the tie which many of archaeologists are believe it is connecting the tie to the military history. Due to Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, was desperately afraid of death, he intended to kill all his soldiers to take his army with him to the other world. Hand of the kings convinced him to use sculptures of soldiers instead of the real ones in his tomb. In his massive tomb which was found in a place located near the city called “shiyan" in 1974, there were 7500 sculpture of soldiers with actual size and a face similar to their actual face. The interesting point is all those soldiers had a scarf similar to tie around their neck. However, the story behind the ties around Japanese soldiers neck is always like a mystery.