A basic sack coat can cost $60.
The suit we did was almost a sack coat, very early 60's with three buttons and very narrow lapels.
The late-war sack coat was copied from the fatigue jacket worn by the 19th century Prussian Army.
Centre left: Quartermaster Department patterns of the construction and braiding of the 1895 'sack coat'.
In men's fashion, the three-piece ditto suit of sack coat, waistcoat, and trousers in the same fabric emerged as a novelty.
He wore one of the short untapered sack coats that had been introduced about ten years earlier but were still considered cheap and ostentatious in some circles.
Even better was the sack coat, which had multiple outside pockets.
Private Hogan's uniform was similar, but he had on a slouch hat and a navy blue sack coat - Civil War term for a jacket.
Frock coats remained fashionable, but new shorter versions arose, distinguished from the sack coat by a waist seam.
The black trousers and matching sack coat were tailored in a style popular in the 1850's.