Sentences with phrase «morning coat»

Among those arriving at Westminster Abbey on Friday will be David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, all of them, despite some early confusion about the prime minister's proposed outfit, in morning coats.

She was so caught up in a vision of herself in a severely tailored jacket resembling the Etonian morning coat that at first she didn't even hear the pounding on her door.

Wheeler spots a solitary figure on the horizon careening headlong into the tumult wearing «baggy black trousers, a tight morning coat.

A long - line kimono can easily make me look as if I come straight out of bed, wearing my morning coat, if you know what I mean.

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 other significant change over that period was the use of the revers in the construction of the lapel, as the Victorians used elaborate three - part patterns to cut a fold of cloth from the lining into the front of the lapel, a universal consideration of frock coats and dress coats of the period, but abandoned in favor of the current single - piece lapels at the same time as the switch to morning coats and lounge suits.

The peaked lapel (American English), peak lapel, double breasted style lapel or pointed lapel (British English), is the most formal, featuring on double - breasted jackets, [2] all formal coats such as a tailcoat [6] or morning coat, and also commonly with a tuxedo (both single and double breasted).

The playful wit of Rowling's opening pages — Harry getting the appropriate wand for wizardry school in a London shop the way a boy going to Eton would get a morning coat — now seems very far away.

In the morning it coated his pillow, a faint powder flecked with soot.

JOAN MITCHELL: He wore spats and a cane and morning coats, and he was very shy, I guess.

«We had to go and jump on a train at Waterloo station which was hilarious because you're getting there at 8:30 in the morning, everyone's going to work and then you see the people in the morning coats, top hats, and hats, all getting on this one train and leaving town.»

An enterprising tailor — unaware that I needed only to hire a morning coat for the day — sent me a glossy leaflet offering to supply the whole ceremonial outfit for a mere # 5,000.