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An advertisement for an interlined shirt-bosom (dickey) made of Fiberloid, a trademarked plastic material. (1912) In clothing for men, a dickey (also dickie and dicky, and tuxedo front in the U.S.) is a type of shirtfront that is worn with black tie (tuxedo) and with white tie evening clothes. [1]
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.
c. 1910 top hat by Alfred Bertiel European royalty c. 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.
White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. [1] For men, it consists of a black tail coat (alternatively referred to as a dress coat, usually by tailors) worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piqué bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar.
Hat: The 20th-century standard hat for black tie was a black or midnight blue Homburg in winter, [66] [67] or straw boater in spring and summer. [68] Fedoras were originally regarded as too informal but have become more common. Top hats were originally worn with black tie, but had been reserved to white tie and morning dress from World War I ...
The Duke of Connaught in a braided frock coat suit with silk top hat, stand-up collar, cravat, buttonhole, striped shirt, gloves, button boots, cane and racing glasses, in a cartoon in Vanity Fair from 1876. Proper accessories to wear with the frock coat included a non-collapsible top hat and a boutonnière in the lapel.
Portrait of a Man in a Top Hat is a drawing created in 1882 by Vincent van Gogh currently in Worcester Art Museum. It is one of Van Gogh's drawings depicting Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland . [ 1 ]
A hat made from the fur of the Karakul breed of sheep, typically worn by men in Central and South Asia. Keffiyah or Ghutrah: Three piece ensemble consisting of a Thagiyah skull cap, Gutrah scarf, and Ogal black band. Kepi: A generic worldwide military hat with a flat, circular top and visor. First seen in central Europe. Kippah or Yarmulke