Zoot suit occasionally with a long feather as decoration, and pointy, French-style shoes. A young Malcolm X, who wore zoot suits in his youth, described the zoot suit as: "a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats, and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell". Zoot suits usually featured a watch chain dangling from the belt to the knee or below, then back to a side pocket. A woman accompanying a man wearing a zoot suit commonly would herself wear a flared skirt and a long coat. The amount of material and tailoring required made them luxury items, so much so that
Frock coat it usually came with black trousers, although starting from that time more common was for it to go with wear charcoal gray, often pin striped formal trousers. As daily informal wear, the single-breasted frock coat often sported the step, or notched, lapel (the cause of its informality), and was more common in the early 19th century than the formal model. In the late 19th century, the dress coat, morning coat, and lounge suit all evolved from the frock coat. The dress coat and the morning coat are knee length coats like the frock coat, and traditionally share the waist seam