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A tailcoat is waist length in the front and sides, and has two long tails reaching to the knees in back. (Sometimes with a pocket on the inside meant to hold or cutaway, slants diagonally from the waist in front to the knees in back, the tailcoat is cut away more dramatically across. The tailcoat traditionally also has Satin facings on the Lapel s, is double breasted, and meets but does not fasten in the front. (There are two rows of buttons, all non-functional.) It is normally worn with a white wing-collar Dress Shirt with Single Cuff s fastened with Cufflink s, a matching white Bowtie and Waistcoat , black trousers, and black Patent Leather shoes with leggings. Although regarded as formal wear today, like all such "formal wear" it is based upon standard fashions of earlier times. Tailcoats, sometimes called a "claw-hammer", would be standard day-to-day wear in the 1830's to 1850's. A period photo of President James Buchanan and his cabinet shows a group of men all wearing this type of garment. |
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