White tie
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White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. For men, it consists of a black tail coat worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piq
Dolores del Río in ball gown and Fred Astaire in white tie in Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Fashion plate from Costume Parisien (1823)
Artistic depiction of a man in white tie dress (The New Yorker, March 17, 1928)
White tie worn by Madonna dance crew
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