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2. Paletot - Wikipedia

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   Historically, it was a semi-fitted to fitted coat, double-breasted or single-breasted, the front sometimes fastened by a fly, with or without pleats, and with or without pockets. A modern paletot is a classic business overcoat, usually double-breasted with a 6×2 button arrangement, the top buttons placed wider apart and not fastened, with ...

3. Frock coat - Wikipedia

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   A frock coat is a formal men's coat characterised by a knee-length skirt cut all around the base just above the knee, popular during the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1830s–1910s). It is a fitted, long-sleeved coat with a centre vent at the back and some features unusual in post-Victorian dress.

4. Single-breasted - Wikipedia

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   A single-breasted garment is a coat, jacket, vest, or similar item having one column of buttons and a narrow overlap of fabric. In contrast, a double-breasted coat has a wider overlap and two parallel rows of buttons. Single-breasted suit jackets and blazers typically have two or three buttons (jackets with one or four buttons are less common ...

5. Over-frock coat - Wikipedia

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   Like the frock coat, the over-frock would typically be single-breasted, with step lapels for informal occasions like business, and double-breasted with pointed lapels for formal occasions – weddings, funerals, balls, etc. The top-frock was usually double breasted. [1] The formal variety was sometimes called a Prince Albert overcoat.

6. Overcoat - Wikipedia

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   The Chesterfield coat, a long overcoat with very little waist suppression; being the equivalent of the "sack suit" for clothes, it came to be the most important overcoat of the next half-century. The Covert coat , a classically brown/fawn, straight cut, single breasted country coat that became accepted for wear in the city with a suit as well ...

7. Uniforms of the Union army - Wikipedia

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   Overcoats were single-breasted for infantry, double-breasted for cavalry with a rain cape. On campaign, this was sometimes replaced with a rubber poncho for cavalry and artillery, and a gum blanket for infantry, that could double as a groundsheet. Officers' greatcoats were made of dark blue wool and had black braid on front and on the cuffs.