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Between 1865 and 1998[citation needed], Brooks Brothers did not make an off-the-rack black suit. This policy was unrelated to the mistaken idea that the policy was because Abraham Lincoln wore a bespoke black Brooks frock coat when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, however, this concept often is stated as the basis for a traditional American fashion rule, that black suits for men are proper only for servants and the dead.[8] Of course that is irreconcilable with the tradition of tuxedos. The proper explanation is that a gentleman would never wear black before evening. His formal daywear would instead be morning dress, which is grey atop and pinstriped abottom. President Theodore Roosevelt was fond of Brooks Brothers' clothes: he even ordered his dress uniform for the Spanish-American War at Brooks.Through the middle of the twentieth century, when men generally wore full suits much more than now, "a Brooks Brothers suit" might even be mentioned to suggest the wearer's ordinariness. A popular book on evolution suggested that a Neanderthal man might pass unnoticed if he went out wearing the suit.[9] The introduction of a sports jacket being worn with slacks that complemented, but were not matched to them became popular and acceptable even in business wear.