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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.
Black tie became de-facto evening wear with white tie reserved for only the most formal events. [9] In Britain, black tie became acceptable as a general informal alternative to white tie, though at the time the style and accessories of black tie were still very fluid. In the 1920s men began wearing wide, straight-legged trousers with their suits.
An advertisement for an interlined shirt-bosom (dickey) made of Fiberloid, a trademarked plastic material. (1912) In clothing for men, a dickey (also dickie and dicky, and tuxedo front in the U.S.) is a type of shirtfront that is worn with black tie (tuxedo) and with white tie evening clothes. [1]
Prince Albert wearing a black frock coat with silk-faced lapels and bow tie Heads of government wore frock coats at the formal signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. When the frock coat was first worn, correct daytime full dress was a dress coat. The frock coat began as a form of undress, the clothing worn instead of the dress coat in ...
In the eighteenth century a lace fall was often used as an alternative to the bands by judges in full dress. [3] Both falling and standing bands were usually white, lace or lace-edged cambric or silk, but both might be plain. [7] The standing bands, a semi-circular collar, the curved edge standing up round the back of the head.
The Chesterfield coat, with its heavy waist suppression using a waist seam, gradually replaced the over-frock coat during the second half of the 19th century as a choice for a formal overcoat, and survived as a coat of choice over the progression from frock coat everyday wear to the introduction of the lounge suit, but remained principally associated with formal morning dress and white tie.
In Sweden, where white-tie is relatively common, as the article notes, it is considered the most formal dress. However, it isn't the only such dress. Traditional attire (Folkdräkt) is considered on-par with white-tie, and is accepted as a substitute on most occasions requiring white-tie. The same goes for full military dress uniform.
Semi-formal wear or half dress is a grouping of dress codes indicating the sort of clothes worn to events with a level of formality between informal wear and formal wear.In the modern era, [when?] the typical interpretation for men is black tie for evening wear and black lounge suit for day wear, corresponded by either a pant suit or an evening gown for women.