I hope I didn't sound like I was blowing you off. The uses of the cravate are so many, if I try to list them, I'll spend the next few days replying to my own post as I remember them out of the context of just doing.

I remember one memorable lab for that class where they took me, the largest person by far in the class, out of a late 80s Ford Escort on a backboard, and the only thing used to hold me down was cravats. Not fun, they dropped me, but in thier defense, they had people on that board that were... well, let's just say I've eaten sandwiches bigger than they were.