THE MET
Slate Blue Wool Military Dress Tail Coat
Fin de Siecle / Gibson Girl · 1890s · American
Production
handmade
Material
wool broadcloth
Culture
American
Influences
European hussar uniforms · Napoleonic military styling
A formal military dress tail coat featuring a slate blue wool body with elaborate gold braiding across the chest in horizontal rows. The coat displays a high standing collar with gold trim, fitted sleeves with ornate gold cuff decorations, and black silk-faced tails extending to knee length. Multiple rows of gilt buttons run down the front closure, with additional decorative buttons on the cuffs. The chest features approximately eight rows of gold military braiding in a hussar-style arrangement. The garment represents late 19th-century American military dress uniform traditions, combining European military tailoring influences with distinctly American regimental styling.
coattight fithigh neckhip length
Connected To
Worn with·military capFunction·military-uniform
SHARED100 years · cross-category
That pristine military dress coat, with its parade of brass buttons marching up the chest and gold braiding wrapped around the cuffs like expensive trim, demands the kind of ceremonial white gloves lying beside it — even though they're separated by decades. The coat's theatrical formality, all that frogging and metallic gleam, only works when every detail is militarily perfect, down to spotless gloves that won't leave fingerprints on the brass.
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