Do you own a Tux?

[OldStrummer]

I'll play, too. I only own one tuxedo, but since I haven't gained weight over the past 25+ years, one is all I've needed. It's a shawl collar, single-breasted, satin-accented traditional model. I update it with a new tie/cummerbund every now and then (although I confess I like the half-vested look). Facial hair may come and go, but the tux stays in fashion no matter what.

Pictures ranged from 2010 to earlier this month.

 

[Edward]

I am asking myself a question... I have a midnight blue velvet jacket, SB, notched lapels, jetted pockets, that I sometimes wear with the rest of a vintage 30's dinner suit (waistcoat and trousers). It has double vents. Should I close them? My tailor says he can do it, but that due to the fabric the stiching will show.

I'd leave as is. Better to have a couple of honest vents than to try to hide them - which will be glaring. A velvet jacket is the sort of informal take on the whole ting that doesn't require to conform to the usual "rules", imo.

Otherwise I like velvet dinner (and smoking) jackets a lot, but don't have the manor house and fumoir to be able to don the trad red velvet brandenburg closure smoking jacket ;-(

Yeah, those are great, though to my mind they do look a bit 'wrong' if you're not the host. (Personally, I would stretch host to include the organiser of a private black tie function, even if in a hotel or such. )

I'm against notch lapels on a dinner jacket. I would go peaked

Typically I'd agree, though a notch is still technically correct, and when taking the liberty of going velvet anyhow.....

 

[Anthony_Eden]

Thanks Edward and all for your advices: I asked my tailor if it was possible to transform the notched to peak lapels, but he said he would be too costly and complex, so I will just keep it that way and reserve it for home parties, or "creative black tie" or so !

 

[fabiovenhorst]

1940's dinner suit

 

[PeterB]

1940's dinner suit
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I have one almost identical. Fas C41 tag

 

[fabiovenhorst]

 

[de Stokesay]

I inherited one from grandfather that he had made in 1949. I wore out the trousers, but still have both them and the jacket in my basement in case I ever want to get them copied. I had a new one made 3 years or so ago. It’s a Joseph Aboud (Moore’s better grade made to measure brand), and is really quite top notch. No pics though.

I usually wear a dinner jacket at least once a month, but haven’t had it on since Covid started, unfortunately.

 

[Peacoat]

I own three, all in various sizes. About every 5 to 10 years I have a lower body injury that precludes exercise. Of course the weight piles on after 3 to 5 months of inactivity. While my exercise stops, the black tie functions do not. Thus the need for several different sizes.

 

[MisterCairo]

I own one but have not worn in years as formal events now call for mess dress. I should donate it, it remains current, and I would never fit in it in any case!

 

[Alex Oviatt]

I have three that I can think of and several dinner jackets (velvet, tartan, etc.). Hackett, Brooks Brothers and a wonderful one from Japan. My favorite is a bespoke Anderson Sheppard from the late 40s that I bought at Oxfam years ago. Perfect fit. It was okay to wear in the UK but too hot/heavy for SoCal so I had my tailor copy it exactly in a lighter fabric. What I really love about it is that it has grosgrain lapels, not satin. Counting the original I guess I have four, which is really too many unless you are a lounge singer (which I am not). So much stuff is needed to go with them! I hope black tie returns post pandemic.

 

[fabiovenhorst]

Updated photos of my 1940s dinner suit...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CThQ...rgs5Wo0ctFUX0dth9zaPQxeePSXbIDXDyEo9fTb4ZNZXs

 

[fabiovenhorst]

1970s tux with flared trousers...

 

[Tiki Tom]

Love the bell bottoms!

 

[Aloysius]

I do, a double-breasted RRL one. I've unfortunately only had occasion to wear that particular dinner jacket once.

 

[Eli]

Very very rarely worn, but one jacket dated December of 1927.

 

[Alex Oviatt]

I need these like I need a hole in my head but.... At a local charity shop I found a tail coat and trousers (perfect fit) from the great old store Bullock's Wilshire. They had another in midnight blue by Rogers Peet for Robinson's that I may go back and get as well. I also bought a beautiful shawl collared bespoke tuxedo (the tailor's tag was a shop in Florence, Italy which I will have to research). It always amazes me when a bespoke suit is such a perfect fit, like I had some sartorial doppelgänger in Italy in the 1940s. Deep shawl collar and--oddly enough--belt loops. Both were $35 each. Now I need a ball to attend......

 

[ChiTownScion]

Shawl collar with cummerbund. Want to get a new jacket w/ peaked collar & black vest.