Waistcoat
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A waistcoat or vest is a sleeveless upper-body garment. It is usually worn over a dress shirt and necktie and below a coat as a part of most men's formal wear. It is also sported as the third piece in
A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers
Nineteenth century silk damask waistcoat
A young man wearing a modern waistcoat
Woman wearing a modern denim waistcoat.
Justacorps
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A justacorps or justaucorps is a knee-length coat worn by men in the latter half of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century. It is of French origin, where it had developed from a cape-like ga
Waistcoat
…three-piece lounge suit, together with the cravat, derived from a scarf worn by Croatian mercenaries fighting for King Louis XIII of France, and the justacorps, a coat influenced by the long zupans worn in Poland and Ukraine. In France, from the mid-17th century, the "veste" was worn to mid-thigh or knee-length…
Luis Francisco de la Cerda (later Duke of Medinaceli) in a red justacorps with horizontal pockets and lavish decoration, c. 1684.
Display of various styles of achkan and angarkha worn by men, Delhi textile museum.
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