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Suits
A suit, with varieties such as a business suit, three-piece suit, lounge suit or two-piece suit, is a collection of matching clothing comprising: more...
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A coat (commonly known as a jacket);
A pair of trousers (USA pants), or a skirt for women.;
Optionally, a waistcoat (USA vest) (men only). A two-piece suit or lounge suit is one lacking a waistcoat; a three-piece suit has one.;
A suit is generally accompanied by a collared shirt and tie (for men), or a blouse (for women). A hat such as the fedora and the bowler (for men), or the pill box (for women), in Western countries, used to complete the outfit, but over the course of the 20th century they largely fell out of fashion and are no longer commonly worn with suits.
Men wear suits much more frequently than women. Women's suits, a later development than men's suits, are usually worn only in business settings. For other dressy occasions, women more frequently wear other styles of formal clothing.
History
Men's suits
The suit is the traditional outfit of men in the Western world. The modern suit did not appear until the late nineteenth century, but its origins can be traced back to the revolution in men's dress set by Charles II, king of Great Britain in the 1660s. Charles, following the example of the court of Louis XIV at Versailles decreed in 1666 that at court, men were to wear a long coat or jacket, a waistcoat (originally called a petticoat, a term which later became applied solely to women's dress), a cravat (ancestor of the modern necktie) a wig, and breeches or trousers gathered at the knee, as well as a hat for outdoor wear. Although it is hard to see the outline of the modern business suit in the elaborate and brightly-coloured court dress of the seventeenth century, the basic pattern outlined above has survived for more than four hundred years with some adjustments, notably the abandonment of wigs and knee breeches after the French Revolution; the rise of British tailoring, which used steam, pressure, padding, and stiffening to mould woolen fabric to the body; the invention of the modern necktie in the late nineteenth century; and the gradual disappearance of waistcoats and hats during the last fifty years.
What we call the modern suit was originally a nineteenth-century American innovation in dress: seeking a casual alternative to the formal frock coats then considered appropriate business and day time formalwear, men began to wear shorter coats cut just below the waist when in the country or at the seaside. This "sack suit" (now called a "lounge suit" in Great Britain or a "business suit" in North America) became increasingly widely worn as informal daywear for all men who were not engaged in physical labor. The term "ditto suit" was also transiently used early on due to the matching vest and trousers, these sometimes having coats more resembling a frock coat or a morning coat. Even the humblest men would have at least one suit to wear on Sunday to church, hence the term "Sunday best." The waistcoat or vest was worn regularly with the suit until World War II, but is rarely seen today.
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