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Dressed in a top hat, waistcoat and cravat neckcloth, Francis Scott Key - played by historical actor Fred Taylor - recited the lines of the famous poem to an eager audience Tuesday.

He studied me in the mirror now that he had me covered with the striped neckcloth, and I saw a frown of faint recognition.

Men came out of barber shops with lathered faces, their neckcloths hanging, to watch and comment in hushed voices.

A neckcloth or a coat would be quite innovations.

The pope wore a dark great coat over his priest's cassock, a low-crowned round hat, and a broad brown woollen neckcloth outside his straight Roman collar.