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The man is wearing a "sack coat". Date: 1859: Source: Scanned by H. Churchyard from page 462 of the 1st edition of Blanche Payne's History of Costume (1965) Author: Unknown 1859 "Gazette of Fashion" artist: Permission (Reusing this file)
His coat with a waist seam and skirts cutaway in a smooth curve is worn with matching trousers and collared waistcoat, 1882. George Etiene Cartier wears a dark frock coat, a decorative double-breasted waistcoat, and a narrow bow tie. Montreal, after 1882. Lawmen of Dodge City wear their coats with only the high top button fastened.
The donkey jacket is derived from the wool sack coat worn by workers in the 19th century, and the Oxford English Dictionary references the term as first used in 1929: "one with leather shoulders and back". [2] The jacket usually has two capacious side pockets, and sometimes an inside "poacher's pocket".
By the 1890s, the sack coat (UK lounge coat) was fast replacing the frock coat for most informal and semi-formal occasions. Three-piece suits ("ditto suits") consisting of a sack coat with matching waistcoat (U.S. vest) and trousers were worn, as were matching coat and waistcoat with contrasting trousers. Contrasting waistcoats were popular ...
Both frock coats and sack coats became shorter. Flat straw boaters were worn when boating. During the 1880s , formal evening dress remained a dark tail coat and trousers with a dark waistcoat, a white bow tie, and a shirt with a winged collar.
1859 fashion plate of both men's and women's daywear, with seabathing in background. He wears the new leisure fashion, the sack coat.. 1850s fashion in Western and Western-influenced clothing is characterized by an increase in the width of women's skirts supported by crinolines or hoops, the mass production of sewing machines, and the beginnings of dress reform.
The River Road by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1855 (Three habitants wearing capotes). A capote (French:) or capot (French:) is a long wrap-style wool coat with a hood.. From the early days of the North American fur trade, both indigenous peoples and European Canadian settlers fashioned wool blankets into "capotes" as a means of coping with harsh winters. [1]
The Picture Gallery of Canadian History is a three volume pictorial history of Canada, written and illustrated by historical artist Charles William Jefferys. [1] It was published by Ryerson Press; Volume 1: Discovery to 1763 was released in 1942, Volume 2: 1763 to 1830 in 1945, and Volume 3: 1830 to 1900 in 1950.