Frock coat
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A frock coat is a formal men's coat characterised by a knee-length skirt cut all around the base just above the knee, popular during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. It is a fitted, long-sleeved c
Double wedding with grooms wearing formal black double-breasted frock coats with silk-faced lapels, light grey waistcoats, cashmere striped formal trousers, button dress boots, light gloves and Ascot-knotted cravats with cravat pin (April 1904).
Justacorps, the precursor to the frock coat fashionable from the 1660s until the 1790s.
Man's wool and silk twill frock coat (France, 1816–1820), however resembling the preceding 18th-century frock.
German Landwehr soldier in frock coat, 1815
Suit
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A suit, also called a lounge suit, business suit, dress suit, or formal suit, is a set of clothes comprising a suit jacket and trousers of identical textiles generally worn with a collared dress shirt
Frock coat
…step) lapel was more associated with day-to-day professional informal wear. Yet, from the end of the 19th century, with the gradual introduction of the lounge suit, the frock coat came to embody the most formal wear for daytime. Especially so when double-breasted with peaked lapels, a style sometimes called a…
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A man dressed in a three-piece suit and bowler hat
Three-piece tweed suit
Comparison of two notched lapel cuts: English (left) and Spanish (right). The former is the most commonly seen notched lapel.