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Military issue tail coat, 1789 From c. 1790 until after the Crimean War , a red tail coat with short tails, known as a coatee, was part of the infantry uniform of the British army . The collar and cuffs were in the regimental colors and the coats had white braid on the front. [ 2 ]
A British Army coatee from about 1815.. A coatee was a type of tight fitting uniform coat or jacket, which was waist length at the front and had short tails behind.The coatee began to replace the long tail coat in western armies at the end of the eighteenth century, but was itself superseded by the tunic in the mid nineteenth century.
The spencer, dating from the 1790s, was originally a woollen outer tail-coat with the tails omitted. It was worn as a short waist-length, double-breasted, man's jacket. It was originally named after George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834), who is reported to have had a tail-coat adapted after its tails were burned by coals from a fire. [1]
It consists of a tail-coat with matching waistcoat and breeches, lace cuffs and jabot, silk stockings, buckled shoes, cocked hat, white gloves and a sword. At one time suits of various colours were to be seen, often with gold or silver embroidery; but (as is generally the case with men's formal dress) black is now the predominant colour, and ...
The shadbelly coat is part of a formal wear category known as the tailcoat.The male version of the shadbelly is sometimes called a "weaselbelly". The compound word "shadbelly" was also once spelled "shad belly" (most likely in reference to the fish), and the coat is also sometimes referred to as a "swallowtail".
The phrase is a 20th-century variant of earlier expressions referring to other body parts, especially the nose and tail, indicating that the brass monkey took the form of a real monkey. brekkie, brekky (slang) synonym of breakfast breve (musical) a note of two bars' length (or a count of 8) in 4/4 time (US: double whole note) bristols
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A British Army general wearing a frock coat in 2012. The cut of a frock coat with a waist seam flatters a man's figure, as opposed to a sack coat, and such frock coats remained part of some 21st-century military uniforms. They can either be single-breasted, as in some army uniforms, or double-breasted as in both army and navy uniforms.