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As the frock coat became more widely established around the 1850s, it started to become accepted as formal day time full dress, thus relegating the dress coat exclusively to evening full dress, where it remains today as a component of white tie. At this period, the frock coat became the most standard form of coat for formal day time dress.
Name Coat of arms Relations Lived Lands/Offices/Functions Loyal to Henry in the 2nd Barons war? Bertram de Criol ~1190–1256 1. Constable of Dover, Keeper of the Coasts, Lord-Warden of the Cinque Ports 2. Household Knight of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent. 3. Lord of the manor of Sarre 4. Sheriff of Kent 5. Constable of the Tower of London 6.
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.
It was adopted as mess dress by British military officers, leading to the name mess jacket. It was also soon adopted as a popular women's fashion on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1790–1820 Regency style period [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The spencer was worn as a cardigan , or as a short, fitted jacket cut to just above waist level, or, in ...
Alexander Erskine, Lord Cardross: 28 The Earl of Eglinton: 1508 Hugh Montgomerie, 19th Earl of Eglinton Scotland Earl of Winton (United Kingdom 1859) Rhuridh Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie: 29 The Earl of Caithness: 1455 Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness: Scotland Alexander Sinclair, Lord Berriedale: 30 The Earl of Mar and Kellie: 1404 or ...
The royal coat of arms is the official coat of arms of the British monarch. [48] These arms are used by the King in his official capacity as monarch, and are also known as Arms of Dominion . [ citation needed ] Variants of the Royal Arms are used by other members of the Royal Family ; and by the British Government in connection with the ...
The cardigan was named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army major general who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. [4] It is modelled after the knitted wool waistcoat that British officers supposedly wore during the war. The legend of the event and the fame that Lord ...
By the time of the 1953 Coronation, those in procession in the Abbey were instructed to wear full-dress uniform or Court dress; but for other gentlemen a range of dress was permitted: 'one of the forms of Court Dress as laid down in the Lord Chamberlain's Regulations for Dress at Court, or evening dress with knee breeches or trousers, or ...