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Prior to the inception of the Ulster coat in the first half of the nineteenth century, the greatcoat or surtout was the main component of a gentleman's wardrobe. Whilst fashionable at the time, these garments proved to be very cumbersome for travel due to the heavy lengths of overlapping cloth involved in creating the silhouette.
An overcoat is a type of long coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment, which usually extends below the knee. Overcoats are most commonly used in winter when warmth is sought. They are sometimes confused with or referred to as topcoats, which are shorter and end at or above the knees. Topcoats and overcoats together are known as ...
The Chesterfield coat, with its heavy waist suppression using a waist seam, gradually replaced the over-frock coat during the second half of the 19th century as a choice for a formal overcoat, and survived as a coat of choice over the progression from frock coat everyday wear to the introduction of the lounge suit, but remained principally associated with formal morning dress and white tie.
He wears a fur-lined overcoat and tan gloves. Britain, 1872. Plate from The Gazette of Fashion shows a fur-lined overcoat (left) and double-breasted topcoat (right) with braid trim and decorative topstitching, 1872. Checked trousers were quite fashionable.
Portrait of George Augustus Sala in an over-frock coat, by Mathew Brady.c. 1855-1865. An over-frock coat is a formal overcoat designed to be worn over a frock coat if needed in cold weather.
The Overcoat (2001) – a Canadian made-for-TV film produced by the CBC; The Overcoat – an unfinished animated film by Yuriy Norshteyn and Francheska Yarbusova, in the works since the early 1980s. [18] The Overcoat (2017) – a short film adapted and directed by Patrick Myles starring Jason Watkins, Tim Key, Vicki Pepperdine and Alex Macqueen ...