Nehru jacket

The Nehru jacket is a hip-length tailored coat for men or women, with a mandarin collar, and with its front modelled on the Indian achkan or sherwani, a garment worn by Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India from 1947 to 1964.

[1] Unlike the achkan, which falls somewhere below the knees of the wearer, the Nehru jacket is shorter.

[4][5] Some were also worn by Roger Delgado's version of the renegade Time Lord known as the Master on the British science fiction television show Doctor Who.

Charles Barron and Mahathir Mohamad are among the politicians who frequently wear Nehru suits.

[6][7] In 2012, the Nehru jacket was listed among the "Top 10 Political Fashion Statements" by Time magazine.

Japanese pinstripe Nehru suit, 1990s.
Jawaharlal Nehru in an achkan or sherwani , a garment which served as a model for the Nehru jacket.
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh (left) wearing a Nehru jacket as the top half of a suit, meeting Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in Sanya , China, April 2011