A slit that runs along the back of the dress adds some zest without being overbearing
Preservation is optional to avoid fabric yellowing with age
Pair it with simple but elegant accessories (think: classic stud earrings and a pendant necklace) to complete your formal ensemble
Depending on the region, however, these hats were also spiced up with a variety of colourful accessories, such as feathers, flowers, ribbons and bristles

Smoking jacket, a men's jacket worn informally with black tie Lounge coat or sack coat, a coat which is also a jacket Duster coat or simply "duster" worn when riding horseback Women's [edit] Casaquin, an eighteenth-century coat that fastened down the middle and reached the hip Redingote, an eighteenth-century fitted riding coat with a long skirt down the back worn as a part of a riding habit Spencer, a waist-length, frequently double-breasted, coat from the early nineteenth century sometimes made of the same cloth as the gown beneath it Pelisse, an early-nineteenth-century high-waisted and fitted long coat Basque bodice, a Victorian-era coat that was sometimes made with tails Paletot, a nineteenth-century mid- to full-length coat similar in design to the casaquin in which it is fastens in the front and is fitted to the waist before widening to drape over the skirt Suit coats, a development in the late nineteenth century in which coats or jackets paired with a skirt of the same cloth were worn for purposes other than as riding habits

On sale for $197.56