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  2. Western dress codes - Wikipedia

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    Women Day Evening Day Evening Formal wear i.e. "Full dress" Morning dress: White tie: Trouser suit or skirt with blazer Ball gown: Full dress uniform: Ceremonial dress, religious clothing, folk costumes, orders and medals, etc. Semi-formal wear i.e. "Half dress" Black lounge suit: Black tie: Evening gown: Mess dress uniform: Informal wear i.e ...

  3. Formal wear - Wikipedia

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    The most formal dress for women is a full-length ball or evening gown with evening gloves. Some white tie functions also request that the women wear long gloves past the elbow. Formal wear being the most formal dress code, it is followed by semi-formal wear, equivalently based around daytime black lounge suit, and evening black tie (dinner suit ...

  4. Formal trousers - Wikipedia

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    Formal trousers were originally introduced in the first half of the 19th century as a complement to the then widely worn frock coat.As established formal day attire trousers, they were subsequently introduced to go with the morning dress, which in turn gradually replaced the frock coat as formal day attire standard by 20th century, along with its semi-formal equivalent black lounge suit.

  5. White tie - Wikipedia

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    White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. [1] For men, it consists of a black tail coat (alternatively referred to as a dress coat, usually by tailors) worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piqué bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar.

  6. Morning dress - Wikipedia

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    White tie is the correct, equivalent formal dress for evening social events. The cutaway front of the morning tail coat differs from the evening tail coat (dress coat) in that the waist of the former is cut obliquely while the waist of the latter is cut horizontally, and the tail is cut differently from the swallow tailcoat used for evening dress.

  7. 1860s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    The most formal evening dress remained a dark tail coat and trousers, with a white cravat; this costume was well on its way to crystallizing into the modern "white tie and tails." While during the first half of the decade the waist was long, after 1865 the waist became shorter, with pockets in the pleats.