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The original name of tweed fabric was "tweel", the Scots word for twill, as the fabric was woven in a twill weave rather than a plain (or tabby) weave.A number of theories exist as to how and why "tweel" became corrupted into "tweed"; in one, a London merchant in the 1830s, upon receiving a letter from a Hawick firm inquiring after "tweels", misinterpreted the spelling as a trade name taken ...
An Inverness cape worn with Highland dress, 2007 Tacoma Highland Games. Even though a wide variety of coats, overcoats, and rain gear are worn with Highland dress to deal with inclement weather, the Inverness cape has come to be almost universally adopted for rainy weather by pipe bands the world over, and many other kilt wearers also find it to be the preferable garment for such conditions.
Manet's unidentified man wears a tie secured with a jewel at the neck, a shawl-collared waistcoat, and a contrasting coat, 1860. George Augustus Sala wears an overcoat with black velvet collar, wide lapels, and deep cuffs over a frock coat, waistcoat, and tweed trousers. He wears leather gloves and carries a top hat. c. 1860–1865.
Waistcoats sometimes even included embroidery or hand-painted designs. [3] At the same time, men began wearing the waistcoat apart from the totality of the three-piece suit and more casually with a variety of bottoms beyond the suit pant (khaki or jean). [21] Waistcoats can be double-breasted with buttons set in a horseshoe pattern.
His coat and shawl-collared vest or waistcoat have covered buttons. Note functional buttonholes all the way up his coat lapel. Three-piece suit with frock coat, 1870s. Oliver Hazard Perry Morton wears a narrow string tie, 1870s. Gentleman in a railway carriage wears a dust-colored coat, trousers, and collar-less waistcoat with a dark red ...
British civil servant Charles Edward Trevelyan wears a boldly checked waistcoat and a patterned cravat with fly-front trousers and a dark frock coat, 1840s. Travellers on a steamship, 1842. Portrait shows Alexander von Humboldt in formal dress, 1843. The Duke of Beaufort wears a dark coat and breeches with a deep red waistcoat. His black cravat ...
His double-breasted waistcoat is cut straight across. His frock coat, waistcoat and trousers are all of different fabrics. France, 1858. Liberian politician Edward James Roye wears a frock coat with a wide collar and lapels over a waistcoat with lapels and eight buttons. Artist Henri Fantin-Latour wears a shirt with a turnover collar and a ...
The jacket was often constructed in a boxy fashion and had wide lapels, wide shoulders and numerous pockets. The dress and coat combination created an overall effect of sensibility, modesty and girl next door lifestyle that contrasted the very popular, second-skin like style of the bias-cut evening gown.