It shows a smiling Hendricks in a dress standing next to her ex-husband in coat and tie, their two well-dressed sons flanking them on either side.

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Another collar that goes well with a sport coat sans tie is the semi- or medium-spread collar as both "stand up on their own without a tie, " and don't flare out.

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He wears spread collars while traveling with a sport coat and no tie.

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Button-down collars also work with a sport coat and no tie.

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And a study carried out in Scotland in the early 1990s found male GPs wearing a suit and tie and female doctors wearing a white coat who were most favoured, especially among older and richer patients.

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He would wear trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend, an immense sombrero, a flaming beard cut to a point and a single large blue earring.

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He wore a wig like a big woolly hat, a red floppy bow tie, a yellow speckled vest, and a black coat, and he was emphatically gesturing with white-gloved hands.

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Not a sports coat but a buttoned suit with a starched white shirt and a pinned tie meant something to her.

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