| Prince Alvin was wearing a brilliant black, velvet tailcoat and black britches that looked stunning with his golden crown. |
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| By the time it vanished from daytime activities, the tailcoat had assumed the form we recognize today. |
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| At parties and restaurants, magicians prefer to work without their standard tailcoat, top hat or magic wand. |
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| A penniless Fred, still in striped pants, tailcoat, and spats, hops a freight for New York, with Pop in tow. |
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| His silk cravat suddenly felt as though it may choke him at any moment and his navy blue tailcoat seemed overbearing. |
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| Almost simultaneously a four-horse carriage appeared at the opposite end of the street driven by a short, fat man in a tailcoat. |
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| At the top of the stairs was another speaker with a pointy nose and impassive face, wearing a tailcoat and slacks. |
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| It consisted of a green tailcoat with golden buttons and decorations, a white shirt and black trousers. |
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| The blue tailcoat edged with white and red ruban was ordered and should arrive soon. |
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| A skinny man wearing a monocle, tailcoat, cravat, brogues and pink Lycra leggings struts across stage, nodding to Ella Fitzgerald. |
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| A smirking Serb of indeterminate gender, wearing a tailcoat, sang flat, hiccupping now and then for dramatic effect. |
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| The peaked lapel derives from the formal tailcoat, while the shawl collar echoes the more casual smoking jacket. |
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| It's the same thing for the beautiful braid that is declined in an original way, or the ponytail imitating the tailcoat. |
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| The men wear a black suit consisting of trousers, waistcoat and a form of tailcoat and also a farmer's cap. |
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| Tugging at my neckcloth, I went to the washstand to be met in the mirror by a gangly figure in a threadbare tailcoat and homespun stockings more gray than white. |
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| Wednesday, the ambassador's wife, formally dressed in top hat and tailcoat, was scheduled to ride a stallion named High Voltage in an international horse show. |
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| The tailcoat, waisted and padded on the chest, was de rigueur, accompanied by a waistcoat and close-fitting trousers called pantaloons, which were first buckled at the ankle and later, after 1820, strapped under the instep. |
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| The tailcoat was reserved for weddings and dances, the lounge suit became the accepted city wear, and sports jackets and gray flannel pants were popular for casual attire. |
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| The formal black tailcoat was now reserved for evening attire. |
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| The tailcoat, frockcoat and top hat, for example, were initially developed in the 18th century for horseracing and foxhunting, but eventually became the foundation of 19th-century fashionable dress for men. |
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| It is easy to mock the idea of Cameron standing up for the toiling masses while the pockets of his Old Etonian tailcoat bulge with hedge-funded millions. |
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| This is how the Alpenro enfrack tailcoat originates, a diplomat's uniform decorated with Alpine roses and Edelweiss without which no Swiss envoy can appear in the European courts. |
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| An inmate dressed in a top hat and tailcoat drove a horse-drawn hearse, also inmate-built, to the cemetery, where a half-dozen inmate pallbearers carried him to his grave. |
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