The Inverted V Tie
A glance at our first illustration will show why I chose to call this style of tie ‘Inverted V’. This gentleman’s perfectly trimmed mustache echoes exactly the form of the tie, a shape mirrored by the sharp downward points of his collar. This also happens to be the earliest example we have of this style of tie, from May of 1873.
Another example, our second image, taken in 1876, shows that the V is not always so sharp as it was for the first gentleman, because the knot used is square, so it truncated the upper part of the inverted V shape.
Characteristics of the inverted V tie are a sqare knot, and a folded-down collar, with the ends of the tie tucked under the collar and vest, so that only a thin stripe is visible, along the edges of the collar points.