waistcoat

"Meant" means, most waistcoats only really look good when worn with jackets.

Like you, I prefer the jacketless waistcoat look.

When was the period of history, pre-wristwatch, when men who could afford watches didn't wear waistcoats?

You're not going to make any judgement on that?How's about a massive guy with long hair in a metal t-shirt and a denim waistcoat?

Unfortunately a quick google image search for "Dan Wagner donald duck waistcoat" yields no results, but that would be quite something so see.

One was clasping about his ribs a torn flannel waistcoat, another complained monotonously as his beard stuck in the tufted weeds.

Thin enough to be worn unobtrusively beneath an ordinary waistcoat, it hung from the photographer’s neck on a strap.

Correct, if it's a daytime interview he should wear a morning coat with a matching waistcoat, striped trousers, and a long tie or optionally an Ascot.

Here are a few choice passages:> The importance of the Patagonia vest is that it is both an evolution of the business-casual costume and a reversion to the waistcoat of the ancient three-piece suit.

He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.

Every morning of every day of his life, this elderly man -- his name, as I recall, was Boris -- would dress impeccably in a suit and waistcoat and shuffle to the public library, where more than a dozen of the day's local and out-of-town newspapers were threaded through bamboo poles and hung from racks.

Here was a panacea, a [Greek text] for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach.