"Gown", "shirt/skirt", "frock", and "coat" are all attested back to the early medieval period. Only white shirts were worn with frock coats. Grantham wore a traditional Sussex round frock and beaver hat to stoolball games. Flag officers were to wear their epaulettes with the frock coat. After her downfall she is reduced to wearing a maid servant's frock. Both frock coats and sack coats became shorter. He seemed like a punk in a frock coat. The sherwani evolved as a fusion of the British frock coat and an achkan. The bekishe and the rekel both lack the waist seam construction of the frock coat. The name frock coat appeared out from the earlier frock. He also asked to die in his black frock coat; this request was denied. Many Confederate soldiers started the war with frock coats. Double-breasted was the norm for frock coats during the 19th century. I'm not just gonna go and grab a fancy frock. Some wedding grooms apply more or less creative civil or military variants of frock coats.