Full dress is a category of dress codes that refers to most formal clothing available in Western society.
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1829 Undress frock (full round skirt) coat in place of officer's civilian clothes. 1851 French frock (full skirt) coat only uniform, trimmed in system of branch of service colors ... uniform jacket for mounted troops 1872 Blouse for garrison and field, uniform coat for dress, with epaulettes for generals ...
... Before this, the principal classifications of clothing were full dress and undress, and, less commonly, half dress ... Full dress covered the most formal option a frock coat for daywear, and dress coat for eveningwear ... Half dress, when used, was variously applied at different times, but was used to cover modern morning dress (note that the term morning dress is fairly undescriptive and has not always meant modern ...
... Full dress uniform is a special military uniform reserved for parade or other ceremonial occasions ... States armies were dependent upon voluntary recruiting and found that a smart dress served to attract recruits and improve morale amongst those already serving ... soldiers wore red trousers and kepis as part of their full dress, the majority of British foot regiments retained scarlet tunics for parade and off duty ("walking out"), the ...
... In the 19th century this tall cap evolved into the extravagant full dress feather bonnet while, as an undress cap, the plainer form continued in use until the mid-19th ... style but with a stiffened crown was adopted briefly by some Lowland regiments as full dress headgear ... the Glengarry, a soft blue Balmoral was adopted as full dress headgear by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) and was worn with the green no ...
... to the shoulder boards in 1880 for all officers in full dress, when the system of crowns and stars was reorganised ... pattern of gold lace worn on the cuffs of the full-dress tunic ... worsted braid around the cuff, with the full-dress style shoulder badges on a three-pointed cuff flap ...
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“Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest “swell,” but he simply cannot buy the right things.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility for the poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one’s own abundance.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)