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| | City Journal Summer 2003 | Tailcoats: An Elegy by Nicholas Antongiavanni |
 | | E ven if the tailcoats beauty isnt enough to make you care about its disappearance, its glorious history is worth knowing, not least because it tells us something about the leveling tendencies of modern societies. |
 | | As happy as George was to wear the tailcoat and to see it worn during the day, he would not countenance it for the evening, and insisted that his setbasically, the entire British upper classstick with traditional regal and courtly garments. |
 | | The tailcoats fading glory could still be seen in London during the 1930s, when, says Hardy Amies, On any evening in May or June, Belgrave Square was full of young men in tails. But in democratic, modern New York, 59th and Fifth, the tailcoat grew ever more rare. |
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