It emerged in France at the end of the 17th century. Traditional fashion setters, the French adapted a piece of clothing from a Croatian regiment, passing through Paris in 1668, for daily use on the streets. Croatians wore a linen and muslin scarf that kept the neck cool in summer and warm on the mildest days of winter (when the cold intensified, it was exchanged for a wool model). In France, the adornment started to be manufactured in line or lace. It was worn with a knot in the center, like the modern necktie, and had two long loose ends. The clothing, worn by both men and women, was named cravate, which means “Croatian” in French. Long before that, however, in the first century BC, Roman soldiers already wore something similar: a damp scarf, tied around the neck on hot days. But, with the end of the Roman Empire, this habit ended up falling into oblivion and only reappeared centuries later, to definitely gain the streets.
