coat

 

  • • Smoking jacket, a men’s jacket worn informally with black tie • Lounge coat or sack coat, a coat which is also a jacket • Duster coat or simply “duster” worn when riding
    horseback Women’s [edit] • Caraco, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fitted coat initially associated with the working class; it is similar to a Bedgown • Casaquin, an eighteenth-century coat that fastened down the middle and reached the
    hip • Redingote, an eighteenth-century fitted riding coat with a long skirt down the back worn as a part of a riding habit • Spencer, a waist-length, frequently double-breasted, coat from the early nineteenth century sometimes made of the
    same cloth as the gown beneath it • Pelisse, an early-nineteenth-century high-waisted and fitted long coat • Basque bodice, a Victorian-era coat that was sometimes made with tails • Paletot, a nineteenth-century mid- to full-length coat similar
    in design to the casaquin in which it is fastens in the front and is fitted to the waist before widening to drape over the skirt • Suit coats, a development in the late nineteenth century in which coats or jackets paired with a skirt of the
    same cloth were worn for purposes other than as riding habits; developed into women’s modern suit sets An evening coat from the 1950s by designer Sybil Connolly Modern [edit] Further information on modern coats: Jacket The terms coat and jacket
    are both used around the world.

  • An overcoat is designed to be worn as the outermost garment worn as outdoor wear;[10] while this use is still maintained in some places, particularly in Britain, elsewhere
    the term coat is commonly used mainly to denote only the overcoat, and not the under-coat.

  • [7] By the mid-twentieth century the terms jacket and coat became confused for recent styles; the difference in use is still maintained for older garments.

  • Similarly, in American English, the term sports coat is used to denote a type of jacket not worn as outerwear (overcoat) (sports jacket in British English).

  • An early use of coat in English is coat of mail (chainmail), a tunic-like garment of metal rings, usually knee- or mid-calf length.

  • The term “under-coat” is now archaic but denoted the fact that the word coat could be both the outermost layer for outdoor wear (overcoat) or the coat is worn under that (under-coat).

  • Overcoats worn over the top of knee length coats (under-coats) such as frock coats, dress coats, and morning coats are cut to be a little longer than the under-coat so as
    to completely cover it, as well as being large enough to accommodate the coat underneath.

  • The modern jacket worn with a suit is traditionally called a lounge coat (or a lounge jacket) in British English and a sack coat in American English.

  • The older usage of the word coat can still be found in the expression “to wear a coat and tie”,[8] which does not mean that wearer has on an overcoat.

  • [3] History The origins of the Western-style coat can be traced to the sleeved, close-fitted and front-fastened coats worn by the nomads of the Central Asian steppes in the
    eleventh century, though this style of coat may be much older, having been found with four-thousand-year-old Tarim mummies.

  • The term jacket is a traditional term usually used to refer to a specific type of short under-coat.

  • Nor do the terms tailcoat, morning coat or house coat denote types of overcoat.

  • • Justacorps, a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century knee-length coat, fitted to the waist with flared skirts • Frock coat, a kneelength men’s coat of the nineteenth century
    • Morning coat or cutaway, a dress coat still worn as formal wear • Tailcoat (dress coat in tailor’s parlance), a late-eighteenth-century men’s coat preserved in today’s white tie and tails • Coatee, an early nineteenth-century military coat,
    still worn with Highland dress.

  • [11] Speakers of American English sometimes informally use the words jacket and coat interchangeably.

  • Etymology Coat is one of the earliest clothing category words in English, attested as far back as the early Middle Ages.

  • Because the basic pattern for the stroller (black jacket worn with striped trousers in British English) and dinner jacket (tuxedo in American English) are the same as lounge
    coats, tailors traditionally call both of these special types of jackets a coat.

 

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