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2. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Suntans (called at the time "sunburns") became fashionable in the early 1930s, along with travel to the resorts along the Mediterranean, in the Bahamas, and on the east coast of Florida where one can acquire a tan, leading to new categories of clothes: white dinner jackets for men and beach pajamas, halter tops, and bare midriffs for women.

3. Formal wear - Wikipedia

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   In western countries, a "formal" or white tie dress code typically means tailcoats for men and evening dresses for women. The most formal dress for women is a full-length ball or evening gown with evening gloves. Some white tie functions also request that the women wear long gloves past the elbow.

4. Morning dress - Wikipedia

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   Morning dress, also known as formal day dress, is the formal Western dress code for day attire, [1] consisting chiefly of a morning coat, waistcoat, and formal trousers for men, and an appropriate gown for women. Men may also wear a popular variant, where all parts (morning coat or waistcoat, and trousers) are the same colour and material ...

5. Chesterfield coat - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Western dress codes - Wikipedia

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   Men Women Day Evening Day Evening Formal wear i.e. "Full dress" Morning dress: White tie: Trouser suit or skirt with blazer Ball gown: Full dress uniform: Ceremonial dress, religious clothing, folk costumes, orders and medals, etc. Semi-formal wear i.e. "Half dress" Black lounge suit: Black tie: Evening gown: Mess dress uniform: Informal wear i ...

7. 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 ...