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"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. The song title refers to the formal wear required on a party invitation: top hat , white tie , and a tailcoat .
Astaire remained a male fashion icon even into his later years, eschewing his trademark top hat, white tie, and tails, which he hated. [75] Instead, he favored a breezy casual style of tailored sport jackets, colored shirts, and slacks—the latter usually held up by the distinctive use of an old tie or silk scarf in place of a belt.
c. 1910 top hat by Alfred Bertiel European royalty, 1859 Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (1908–1912), wearing a top hat A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat.
"We're a Couple of Swells" is an American comedy duet song performed by Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in the film Easter Parade (1948). It was written by Irving Berlin.Berlin originally wrote the song "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" for the scene, but the film's producer, Arthur Freed, persuaded Berlin to change this for a song that would highlight Garland's comedic talent.
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Caricature of Mr John Delacour (19th century) wearing dress coat with top hat for white tie. A dress coat , sometimes called a swallow-tail or claw-hammer coat, is the coat that has, since the 1850s, come to be worn only in the evening by men as part of the white tie dress code , also known as evening full dress , for formal evening occasions.
"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" (Berlin) – 3:11 "The Way You Look Tonight" (Fields, Kern) – 2:25 "The Piccolino" (Berlin) – 2:38 "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:04 "Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin) – 3:01 "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Berlin) – 2:22 "They All Laughed" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:30
Irving Berlin's classic Top Hat, White Tie and Tails: I'm puttin' on my top hat Tyin' up my white tie Brushin' off my tails. This is going to be a hard piece to translate without understanding the author's apparently-frequent puns, semi-puns and allusions from the everyday life, habits, artifacts, colloquialisms and slang of early to mid-20th ...