There is a garment, something like a men's suit jacket, but coming to mid-thigh. You see it in formal outfits in dress suit hire places. What's it called?
....I think it's the other way around. The sort of jacket that one sees mostly in grey at weddings and at the Ascot Opening Day scene in My Fair Lady, cut straight all around like a regular suit jacket, is a morning coat, as far as I know, while the sort of thing that one sees on concert pianists and butlers, shorter at the front and then going down longer is a frock coat. But since that's also called "tails" I could be wrong. But that's always how I understood it.
Frock coat, I believe. Morning coats are cut in a single curve from the central point at the midriff to the longest point of each tail. IFSWIM. Coats that cut away at the midriff and have long tails are evening coats.
It's an Edwardian Frock coat...to be precise. The kind that was adopted by the 'Teddy Boys' of the '50s (hence the name Teddy Boy). Poulpar these days as formal morning wear but it isn't a Morning Suit/Coat. That's a type of tail coat.
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I've been labouring under that misapprehension for years! I have to go re-read any period books I've read now, 'cos my head images are all wrong :)
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