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"There's a little more flexibility with the tie these dayslike when wearing a turtleneck underneath a sports coat or blazer, or if it's the summertimebut traditionally, cocktail attire means a tie," says Hurwitz

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It honors the Marines who fell in the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War

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