Hey, mister: A frock is a dress! So I assume you're talking frock coats here, huh? The frock coat, predecessor of the modern suit, is long extinct in America, having lost out to the cutaway coat ...

Holly Messinger, the textiles conservator at The Arabia Steamboat Museum, carefully laid out the pieces of a frock coat, an 1850’s relic recovered from the bottom of the Missouri River.

Brummell was a mover and shaker in early 1800s English court life, arguably the original hipster, and definitely the man who changed the menswear game forever by rejecting the popular frock coats ...

The suit’s history can be traced back to the frock coat worn by the gentry on horseback. George V was the last British king to wear a frock coat on a regular basis and it was his son Edward VIII ...