Quote Originally Posted by mcvarmit View Post
good deal on officer type mess jackets, their black, made of tropical weight wool. they were rental jackets in excellent condition. if you've ever seen a tux with tails, picture one without the tails.

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its not available online, you must call in the order, ask for a spencer or a tracy jacket.
While I do well know of spencer coats I don't quite know why tracy? I don't what know what Tracy was in the House of Spencer (Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, was the father of the the late Princess Diana) but I'd suspect someone mistook Spencer Tracy for ... :-)

Spencer coats have been the rage, off and on, since the late 18th century and continue to be the basis for many formal coates. In the 1950s they were "the jacket" in North America for ladies cocktail attire.