Morning dress

The Cutaway, also Cut ( pronunciation: [ KOEt ], also [ kat ] ), Registered in England developed from the frock coat garment for men, which was established in its present form in 1900. The origins go but to the time back to 1850.

The term " Cutaway " is derived from the cut-off (English cut away ) corners of the frock coat. It is worn as the Stresemann in the morning and not later than 18 clock. As most festive days suit being worn to weddings, funerals or high-class state receptions. Its English name morning coat ( morning dress ) makes it the counterpart of the frock coat ( white tie and tailcoat jacket = tail coat ). The cut is the most festive morning suit Western- protocol, it can be replaced by the less festive Stresemann.

The Cutaway consists of a black and gray striped ( Stresemann ) pants, black shoes, a light gray or colored vest (in the case of a funeral they should from the same dark fabric as made ​​the jacket or black ), a white shirt and to a silver gray for funerals black tie or even a plastron. The anthracite or light gray Cut is a frock coat with a round tapping. The classic cut include ankle-length white wool fabric Leggings with pier, which have a fluffy inside.

When light gray Cut - worn at weddings by the groom and the bride's father as well as horse races - waistcoat and trousers often made ​​from the same fabric as the jacket. Traditionally you wear this still a black or silver gray top hat and a white chrysanthemum in his buttonhole. Although the cut as the tailcoat was a bourgeois clothing ( the nobility usually wore during festivals and special occasions a uniform), it is now often worn on the European continent in royal marriages. Is important to note for parties abroad that there the color choice another is common. So the black Cut in Germany is supported only for funerals, in Spain, however, also weddings.