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A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers. A waistcoat (UK and Commonwealth, / ˈ w eɪ s (t) k oʊ t / or / ˈ w ɛ s k ə t /; colloquially called a weskit [1]) or vest (US and Canada) is a sleeveless upper-body garment. It is usually worn over a dress shirt and necktie and below a coat as a ...
Johann Christian Fischer, composer, in matching coat, waistcoat, and breeches, by Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780. The suit is a traditional form of men's formal clothes in the Western world. For some four hundred years, suits of matching coat, trousers, and waistcoat have been in and out of fashion.
For sentimental reasons, the narrator purchases the waistcoat (vest) of the story's title for half a ruble from a Jewish peddler; it had belonged to the narrator's neighbor. It is faded in front, bears many stains, is threadbare in back, is missing buttons, and has two bands: one, shortened and sewn on, with a clasp; the other, with piercings ...
The waistcoat plays an important part in black tie's refined minimalism by helping to conceal its working parts by discreetly covering the trousers' exposed waistband and the shirt bosom's bottom edge. Waistcoats come in the 'V' or rarer 'U' shape, in backless or fully backed versions, double- or single-breasted, with or without lapels.
The waistcoat, instead of being black as usual in the formal version, was matching or odd. Until the modern cut away morning coat was worn, the single breasted frock coat was called a morning coat and was used in such a less formal context and double breasted coats made this way would often not fasten, being held loosely together in much the ...
1956. Minimum wage: $1 In 2025 money: $11.85 On Mar. 1, 1956, the minimum wage was raised by one-third, just as it had been in 1945. For the first time in history, those entering the workforce ...
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Two in 3 people east of the Mississippi River live within a day's drive to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Once there, the majestic Smoky Mountains beckon.
A yelek (also spelled jelick in older English texts) is the bodice or waistcoat of Ottoman origin, traditionally worn by women. The yelek is typically a sleeveless and collarless garment and usually has small pockets on the sides. Traditional yeleks are generally embroidered and made out of silk cloth as well as velvet and leather.