Formal Wear Primer

[Chowderhouse]

I almost want to conjecture that one of the myriad reasons no one wears black or white tie anymore is that everyone looks so awful in both.

Everyone looks awful in white tie these days? The photos below were taken at an event last night. You think this looks awful, Hap?

 

[Hap Hapablap]

I think I implied the "average", run-of-the-mill white tie ensemble. It is a shame how much effort goes into making it look correct. Way back when, you could walk into any department store and get it right.

 

[Chowderhouse]

I think I implied the "average", run-of-the-mill white tie ensemble. It is a shame how much effort goes into making it look correct. Way back when, you could walk into any department store and get it right.

So you approve of the outfit in the photos above?

 

[Hap Hapablap]

I think it looks wonderful. I wish everyone in the political photo had access to such amenities.

 

[dhermann1]

Yes, our friends do look fabulous in those shots. Not so fabulous are the tacky pink (or orange or green or whatever) paper wristbands people are required to wear at EVERYTHING nowadays.

 

[Chowderhouse]

Hap and Dhermann, thank you kindly for your encouraging responses. I was beginning to wonder if this joint is The Apathy Lounge.:eusa_doh:

 

[Tomasso]

Hap and Dhermann, thank you kindly for your encouraging responses. I was beginning to wonder if this joint is The Apathy Lounge.:eusa_doh:

I judged the rig perfect but I considered the question rhetorical and feared stating the obvious. [huh]

 

[Hap Hapablap]

Nor did I mean to mislead. I am a HUGE fan of formal done well, and that is a sparkling example. I am just absolutely maddened by the leaders of our country looking like junior prom cast-offs.

 

[Chowderhouse]

Thank you both: it's great to be encouraged. Here's one more: a crisp, nearly full-frontal view.

 

[Rathdown]

Nor did I mean to mislead. I am a HUGE fan of formal done well, and that is a sparkling example. I am just absolutely maddened by the leaders of our country looking like junior prom cast-offs.

For the most part, they are junior prom cast-offs.

 

[Cobden]

Picture of myself and the Cobdenette last year at her college ball (which had a 1920s dress code that was also black tie. I think I was the only one to bridge this contradiction!). The dinner jacket is 1926 dated, stiff marcella shirt with detachable butterfly wing collar, backed white tie waistcoat waistcoat. Shirt studs and cufflinks are silver and lapis lazuli, and purple pocket square. I do apologise, I look a bit of a tit in the pic, but it shows the outfit nicely

Normally, I wear a double breasted 1940's dinner jacket and a turndown collar

 

[Mr. Garrulus]

OK, guys. This is gonna crack you up. You better be sitting down.
http://tbarryknickers.com/tuxedotbarrys.aspx

What about these? A new alternative to the traditional trousers? Do you think we might be seeing these in near future?
http://www.slowandsteadywinstherace.com/collections/warehouse/products/tuxedo-sweat-pants

 

[Bugsy]

what about these? A new alternative to the traditional trousers? Do you think we might be seeing these in near future?
http://www.slowandsteadywinstherace.com/collections/warehouse/products/tuxedo-sweat-pants

omg!!!

 

[Rathdown]

Take them out and shoot them. Next!

 

[dhermann1]

What's funny about that is that CharlieHuang showed us the super formal outfit he wore a while back that included I believe white tie, with black knee breeches and hose, with opera pumps. Don't recall what type of event it was for, but the knee breeches were NOT really like these plus fours.
It's a few pages up from this post.

 

[Nick D]

It was court dress.

 

[dhermann1]

Egg-Zackly.

 

[Mr. Garrulus]

What do you think, would I be welcome at the Royal Ascot looking like this?

 

[Bugsy]

What do you think, would I be welcome at the Royal Ascot looking like this?

Absolutely smashing outfit. :eusa_clap You would be welcome just about anywhere dressed like that. :eusa_clap

 

[Hap Hapablap]

That is a beautiful hat, and appears to be "real" and in good condition. Where is it from?

What do you think, would I be welcome at the Royal Ascot looking like this?