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A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the tails), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding in the Early Modern era .
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.
A British Army coatee from about 1815.. A coatee was a type of tight fitting uniform coat or jacket, which was waist length at the front and had short tails behind.The coatee began to replace the long tail coat in western armies at the end of the eighteenth century, but was itself superseded by the tunic in the mid nineteenth century.
The spencer, dating from the 1790s, was originally a woollen outer tail-coat with the tails omitted. It was worn as a short waist-length, double-breasted, man's jacket. It was originally named after George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834), who is reported to have had a tail-coat adapted after its tails were burned by coals from a fire. [1]
The English etiquette authority, Debrett's, dictate that smart woven silk ties are preferred to cravats [1] although stocks and cravats may be worn as an alternative. [26] The American etiquette authority, The Emily Post Institute , states that either a tie or a dress ascot may be worn with a morning coat. [ 13 ]
Indeed, an overcoat may be worn over the top of a tailcoat. In tailoring circles, the tailor who makes all types of coats is called a coat maker. Similarly, in American English, the term sports coat is used to denote a type of jacket not worn as outerwear (overcoat) (sports jacket in British English). Swedish police women with coats in 1958.
Swallow-tail coat, a formal tailcoat worn traditionally as part of the white tie dress code; Swallowtail (flag), a term in vexillology; Swallowtail joint in woodworking, see Dovetail joint; The Swallow's Tail, a painting by Salvador Dalí, inspired by the swallowtail catastrophe; Swallowtail, a butler café in Tokyo, Japan
The shadbelly coat is part of a formal wear category known as the tailcoat.The male version of the shadbelly is sometimes called a "weaselbelly". The compound word "shadbelly" was also once spelled "shad belly" (most likely in reference to the fish), and the coat is also sometimes referred to as a "swallowtail".