Black Figured Wool Evening Dress Tailcoat

Great Depression · 1930s · English

A formal evening dress tailcoat in black figured wool featuring the classic swallow-tail silhouette with peaked lapels and a fitted waist. The coat displays traditional tailoring construction with structured shoulders and a nipped waistline that extends into the characteristic long tails at the back. The figured wool fabric shows a subtle textural pattern that catches light differently across the surface. The garment represents the continuation of 19th-century formal menswear traditions into the 1930s, maintaining the rigorous standards of Savile Row tailoring during the Great Depression era when formal dress codes remained important for evening social functions.