Men wear morning dress when members of a wedding party. In common with court dress, mess dress, and white tie, morning dress is for prestigious and important social occasions. Despite its name, morning dress may be worn to afternoon social events before five o'clock, but not to events beginning after seven o'clock in the evening.
White tie (evening dress) is the correct, equivalent formal dress for evening social events. The cutaway front of the morning tail coat differs from the evening tail coat (dress coat) in that the waist of former is cut obliquely while the waist of the latter is cut horizontally, and the tail is cut differently from the swallow tailcoat used for evening dress. The skirt waist construction of the coats is equestrian in origin, to ease the wearer's riding his horse. In the U.S., the morning coat is referred to as a cutaway coat.
In the U.K., morning dress is worn to certain equestrian events (such as Royal Ascot and the The Derby). It is also worn, both in the the UK and certain other Commonwealth countries such as Australia and New Zealand, by the male members of a wedding party.[1] In Europe, the groom sets the sartorial tone: the guests may wear morning dress if he does. In the U.S., morning dress is rare; it usually is worn in traditional weddings and political formal events. In the American South, morning dress is commonly worn by a governor-elect when sworn to office.[citation needed] No president since Ronald Reagan has worn morning dress at his swearing-in. However, the federal government's advocate and the United States Solicitor General or his deputies wear morning coats during oral argument before the United States Supreme Court.
In fiction or popular culture, it may be used to refer, possibly satirically, to a rich ruling class, for example in cartoons.
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