as formal wear. In recent years many Sefardi rabbis also wear a similar frock coat. The frock coat amongst non-Hassidic Jews is usually reserved for a rosh yeshiva, (maybe also the mashgiach and other senior rabbis of the yeshiva) and other rabbis such as important communal rabbis and some chief rabbis. Most married male Lubavitcher Hasidim also don frock coats on Shabbat. All Hasidim also wear a gartel (belt) over their outer coats during prayer services. Most Hasidim wear long coats called rekelekh during the week, which are often mistaken for frock coats but are really very long suit jackets. On Shabbat, Hasidim wear bekishes, which are usually silk or polyester as opposed to the woollen frock coat. The bekishe and the rekel both lack the waist seam construction of the frock coat. Additionally, bekishes can be distinguished from frock coats by the additional two buttons on front and a lack of a slit in the back. Part of the slit hem in the back of the frock coat is rounded so as to not require tzitzit. The buttons are usually made to go right over left on most Jewish frock coats, particularly those worn by Hasidic Jews. In Yiddish, a frock coat is known as a frak, a sirtuk or a kapotteh. Teddy Boys The Teddy Boys, a 1950s UK youth movement, named for their use of Edwardian-inspired clothing, briefly revived the frock coat, which they often referred to as a "drape". Gallery Popular Culture Doctor Who features frock coats worn by the Doctor during the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, eleventh, and twelfth incarnations. It also features frock coats worn by some incarnations of the Master. See also Victorian era 1820s in fashion Frock Over-frock coat Dress coat Suit jacket Bekishe References Bibliography Antongiavanni, Nicholas: The Suit, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2006. Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: clothing and society 1500-1914, Abrams, New York, 1996. Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: the language of clothing in colonial and federal America, Yale University Press, New haven, 2002. Black, J. Anderson & Garland, Madge: A History of Fashion, Morrow, New York, 1975. Byrd, Penelope: The Male Image: men's fashion in England 1300-1970. B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1979. Croonborg, Frederick: The Blue Book of Men's Tailoring. Croonborg Sartorial Co., New York and Chicago, 1907 Cunnington, C. Willett & Cunnington, Phillis: Handbook of English Costume, 3rd ed. Plays Inc. Boston, 1970.