Frock coat

A frock coat is a double-row jacket for men with knee-length an attached lap of mostly dark cloth, which was worn especially in the 19th century during festive occasions.

In contrast to the jacket frock coats are made of top ( tunic ) and by means of a waist seam recognized, approximately knee-length skirts. Today is known as a frock coat called a close-fitting, waisted, long jacket, Jacket or Overcoat and Over. More rarely, the names Long Jacket or long jacket be used.

The result was the Frock around 1800 from the Justaucorps the Rococo, which dates back to the construction of the doublets of the 17th century.

After 1820 the posh frock coat was closely fitted to succeed the most garish Biedermeier Frackes and padded in the chest and hip, but this only meant that he was working on a horsehair inlay. This liner called the Schneider of the 19th century padding.

He was often worn open, with a matching or abstechenden vest underneath and a dark striped trousers, a shirt with collar and flaps aufknöpfbarem a cylinder. From about 1870 the dark frock coat was the official clothing of ministers, Kommerzienräten, doctors and businessmen. This was one a plastron instead of a tie.

Jokingly was the frock coat, because it was last worn only on festive occasions, also called a frock coat.

A special type of frock coat is the Luther skirt. This is a black, single-breasted buttoned, high-necked frock coat with a high neck. Some clerics (usually bishops ) wear it as official costume outside of worship.

A new, short-term popularity received the frock coat by the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, in which the protagonist Neo is wearing a black, Luther rock -inspired frock coat, which differs mainly by a higher stand-up collar and a longer, ankle-length cut from the original.