{"product_id":"ermenegildo-zegna-black-grey-trofeo-wool-traditional-morning-suit","title":"Ermenegildo Zegna Black \u0026 Grey Trofeo-Wool Traditional Morning Suit","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the Ermenegildo Zegna Black and Grey Trofeo Wool Traditional Morning Suit. The morning suit is the senior form of formal daytime dress for men, a category of clothing with a lineage that runs to the riding coats of the eighteenth century, when the front skirts of the gentleman's coat were cut away to allow freedom of movement on horseback, leaving the characteristic tail at the back that gives the tailcoat its name and its silhouette. By the Victorian era the morning coat had shed its equestrian function and assumed its present identity as the correct dress for the most formal occasions the daylight hours could produce, worn across a social calendar that ran from race meetings to church to court. That calendar has narrowed considerably in the century since, but where the morning suit still appears it appears with the same authority it has always carried, the occasions that retain it being precisely those that have decided formality is worth preserving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday the morning suit is the required dress for the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot, the foremost of the British summer race meetings and the occasion most closely associated with the ensemble in public consciousness. It is the correct choice for formal British and European weddings where a dress code is specified, for investitures and garden parties at royal residences, for the Kentucky Derby's most formal enclosures, and for any formal daytime ceremony where black tie would be worn after dark. The ensemble reads internationally as the highest register of daytime dress a man can wear without entering the separate category of white tie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe construction of the morning suit is specific and fixed by long convention. The tailcoat is cut with a single button at the front, the skirt sweeping away from that point in a continuous curve to the tails at the back, the peak lapels faced in the same cloth as the coat rather than in silk as an evening coat would be, the whole built on a construction that is neither casual nor relaxed but intentionally formal in every proportion. The waistcoat is the third piece that completes the ensemble, traditionally in a contrasting cloth, here in light grey against the black coat, the combination the most correct and most recognisable arrangement the morning suit takes. Striped formal trousers in grey and black complete the ensemble below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Zegna execution is built in Trofeo wool, the house's benchmark cloth woven from long-staple prestige Australian superfine merino selected for its fineness, its resilience and the evenness of its surface. In black for the tailcoat and light grey for the waistcoat, the Trofeo's qualities of drape and surface clarity are exactly what the morning suit's formal silhouette requires: a cloth that holds the tailcoat's structured line without stiffness and presents a face clean enough that the formality of the construction reads without interruption. Peak lapels are cut with the definition and roll the morning coat demands, the silhouette correct from every angle and in the proportion that formal occasions require.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErmenegildo Zegna has supplied suiting cloth and finished garments to the men most concerned with the upper register of formal dress for generations. A morning suit in Trofeo wool is the house making that tradition explicit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ermenegildo Zegna","offers":[{"title":"48 IT \/ 38 US \/ Medium \/ Black \/ 100% Wool","offer_id":58921931768140,"sku":"SA02777","price":798.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/6187\/1105\/files\/5F9D3057-9EFB-4FAF-BF1C-FDC9D19E2E4A.png?v=1790161393","url":"https:\/\/sartorialistamsterdam.com\/nl\/products\/ermenegildo-zegna-black-grey-trofeo-wool-traditional-morning-suit","provider":"Sartorialista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}