#tailcoat

[dionysiaproductions]

Mr. Darcy is devastatingly cute in his coat

This has been the most rewarding use of a Sunday afternoon.

When inspiration says, "let's make something silly," yes and that impulse.

[artschoolglasses]

A Gentleman's Blue and Green Voided Velvet Tailcoat, French, c. 1800

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

[whitegloveservant]

It feels great to be a butler serving at the manor. All men should be butlers.

[clove-pinks]

An extant men's ensemble from c. 1833: coat and trousers of British make (Metropolitan Museum of Art collection).

Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century, by Phillis and C. Willett Cunnington, describes the men's suit of the 1830s:

The tail coat was double-breasted or single-breasted; the cut-in now square; the collar high behind with rolled lapels turning low for full evening dress. The waist was rather short (until 1836) and the skirt at first scanty — ‘scarcely perceptible’ (1831.) — but becoming fuller and longer by 1838. The corners were rounded.

The sleeves, long and close-fitting, ceased to be gathered at the shoulders soon after 1832 although slight gathers sometimes persisted into the 1840s. The cuffs were usually slit (the French riding cuff) with two buttons in the cuff and sometimes two above; the corners of the cuff, from 1838, might be rounded off.

A fashion plate detail from 1834 (Met collection) showing a similar style of double-breasted tailcoat on the man at right, also paired with pleated Cossack-style trousers with foot straps.

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[recycledmoviecostumes]

This striking burgundy red tailcoat was seen waltzing through the London Ball on Tom Parker, played by Kris Marshall, in the 2019 first season of 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒏.   But that wasn’t where it began its life. The same coat turned up the year before, in 2018’s television adaptation of 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒓, worn by Jos Sedley, played by David Fynn.   Its story stretches back even further, when it was worn by David Walliams as Mr. Pumblechook in 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 in 2012.   Find out where this costume originated at Bit.ly/RegRom193  

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Fabulous Jaden in a suit for Soundwave3591 🥰 This idea was in a messy, quick sketch for years before I finally made it into a polished piece. Jaden Nikos comes from here: “My Brother’s Keeper” RWBY AU gallery

[diemelusine]

Caricature of Beau Brummell (1805) by Robert Dighton.