President Lincoln received suits (he was inaugurated wearing a new outfit donated by Titsworth and Brothers of Chicago), hats, overcoats, shawls, canes, slippers and shirt studs.
But for the sake of the Barbie image, her immersion in the "Mad Men" era will go only so far: The dolls come with period accessories like hats, overcoats, pearls and padded undergarments, but no cigarettes, ashtrays, martini glasses or cocktail shakers.
He wears a handsome suit, good shoes, and a new-looking hat and overcoat.
This all goes back to John F. Kennedy, who famously wore no hat or overcoat for his 1961 inauguration in minus-10-degree weather, projecting youth and resolve that contrasted with Dwight D. Eisenhower bundled in a coat and scarf.
He works away on his latest book, answers fan mail, and at midday, reaches for his cane, floppy hat and overcoat, and rides the elevator down from the second floor to the lobby.
His decision to paint in an utterly conventional, inexpressive, even illustrational manner was as conscious and deliberate as his dress and habits: the bowler hat, the overcoat, his affectation of the suburban lifestyle of the French-speaking Belgian petit bourgeois.
At William Henry Harrison's March inauguration in 1841, he stepped to the podium without hat or overcoat, under a louring sky, his trouserlegs flapping in the bitter wind, and delivered the longest address on record.
She heard the rattle of the sleet at the window, the murmur of the TV: I can't let you go like this, a man protested, and she could picture him, angular and tall, a man in a hat and overcoat in a black-and-white world that might have been another planet, I just can't.
Every time I cycle down the medieval Oudezijds Voorburgwal canal, for example, and turn to look through the stone gate that leads into the courtyard of the Grand Hotel, I get a glimpse of the reassuringly stolid figure of Winston Churchill, decked out in top hat and overcoat, beaming, tapping his cane on the pavement.
While the original Moliere text is sprinkled with anti-Semitic and anti-ethnic references (the choice of a Jewish name for his money-lender cannot be accidental), it is unfortunate that this production indulges the stereotype by dressing Mr. Toth in a black hat and overcoat and having him sport a grotesquely large nose.
