Bow - a decorative knot that has two loops. Long since people had to bind different items of clothing laces and ribbons, and the node should be such as to make it easy to tie and untie. And turned the bow. With XVI century bows are used not only as a host but also as a decorative element. Bows started to decorate everything - dresses, hair clips, shoes, fans, tied in bows hair bands. Often bows decorated with precious stones and pearls. Queen Elizabeth had a weakness for bow - one of the portrait of a woman from head to toe is decorated them. Since then, fashion bows continued unabated, though these decorative elements and slightly modified. For example, in the XVII century in vogue curvy bows of wide belts, and even they started to decorate hats. Often decorated with bows and men's suits, in particular, were very popular tie-bows.
Now bows and ribbons can be found everywhere - on clothes, accessories, underwear and shoes. Bow became a symbol of years of school - girls are often woven into the hair ribbon, the ends of which are tied to this beautiful site.