Possible Clues:

• They're often worn with tails
• Tall ones - how Jerome detested them
• Astaire and Lincoln wore them (2 words)
• Shop at far end of street flogged formal gear
• They may be worn with tails (2 words)
• They got tipped at old-fashioned gentlemen's clubs
• Wardrobe items in 'A Chorus Line'
• Formalwear of old
• Accompaniers of canes
• Playroom chest