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2. Overcoat - Wikipedia

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   The Chesterfield is a formal, dark, knee-length overcoat with a velvet collar introduced around the 1840s in the United Kingdom. A less formal derivation is the similar, but with a lighter fabric, slightly shorter, top coat called a covert coat .

3. 1870s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Furlined full-length overcoats were luxury items in the coldest climates. Full-length trousers were worn for most occasions; tweed or woollen breeches were worn for hunting and hiking. In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis began to sell the original copper-riveted blue jeans in San Francisco. These became popular with the local multitude of ...

4. Over-frock coat - Wikipedia

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   The formal variety was sometimes called a Prince Albert overcoat. The Prince Albert top frock, from the later half of the 19th century, originally had a three-inch-wide velvet collar, and flap pockets at the hip, until 1893, when it became even more fitted, longer, and double-breasted.

5. 1860s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Any part of the dress could also be embroidered in silver or gold. This massive construct of a dress required gauze lining to stiffen it, as well as multiple starched petticoats. Even the clothes women would ride horses in received these sorts of embellishments. [5] Croquet players of 1864 loop their skirts up from floor-length over hooped ...

6. Coat - Wikipedia

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   An overcoat is designed to be worn as the outermost garment worn as outdoor wear; [14] while this use is still maintained in some places, particularly in Britain, elsewhere the term coat is commonly used mainly to denote only the overcoat, and not the under-coat. A topcoat is a slightly shorter [citation needed] overcoat, if any distinction is ...

7. 1880s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Knee-length topcoats, often with contrasting velvet or fur collars, and calf-length overcoats were worn in winter. By the 1880s the majority of the working class, even shepherds, adopted jackets and waistcoats in fustian and corduroy with corduroy trousers, giving up their smock frocks.