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2. 1870s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   [clarification needed] Waistcoats (U.S. vests) were generally cut straight across the front and had collars and lapels, but collarless waistcoats were also worn. Three-piece suits consisting of a high-buttoned sack coat with matching waistcoat and trousers, called ditto suits or (UK) lounge suits, grew in popularity; the sack coat might be ...

3. White tie - Wikipedia

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   White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. [1] For men, it consists of a black tail coat (alternatively referred to as a dress coat, usually by tailors) worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piqué bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar.

4. 1860s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Margherita of Savoy-Genoa wears an outdoor walking costume consisting of a loose jacket and matching skirt. The skirt is drawn up for ease of walking over an ankle-length underskirt or petticoat and hoops. She wears a bowler-like hat wrapped in a scarf or veil. Latter half 1860s. Fashions of 1869 show a high waist and an elliptical skirt ...

5. 1900s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The shirtwaist, a costume with a bodice or waist tailored like a man's shirt with a high collar, was adopted for informal daywear and became the uniform of working women. Wool or tweed suit (clothing) called tailor-mades or (in French) tailleurs featured ankle-length skirts with matching jackets; ladies of fashion wore them with fox furs and ...

6. History of suits - Wikipedia

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   Johann Christian Fischer, composer, in matching coat, waistcoat, and breeches, by Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780. The suit is a traditional form of men's formal clothes in the Western world. For some four hundred years, suits of matching coat, trousers, and waistcoat have been in and out of fashion.

7. 1750–1775 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   American boy wears a frock with a pink satin lining over a buff-colored waistcoat and a collared shirt with wrist frills, 1765. An American girl of 1767 wears a pink satin back-fastening gown over a smock and black shoes with low heels. The girls wear mobcaps and a straw hat. The teenage boy has powdered hair and wears a frock coat and knee ...

8. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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   6 months: colours permitted are grey, lavender, mauve, and black-and-grey Daughter for parent: 6 months: black with black or white crepe (for young girls); no linen cuffs and collars; no jewellery for first 2 months: 4 months: less crepe – 2 months as above Wife for husband's parents: 18 months in black bombazine with crepe – 3 months in black

9. Suit - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wearing business wear suits as per their gender, 2016. The word suit derives from the French suite, [3] meaning "following," from some Late Latin derivative form of the Latin verb sequor = "I follow," because the component garments (jacket and trousers and waistcoat) follow each other and have the same cloth and ...