Black tie
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Black tie is a half-dress Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and North American conventions for attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often refer
A man wearing a dinner suit with shawl lapels, a cummerbund, a black bow tie, and Oxford shoes
Illustration of British peaked lapel and shawl collar dinner jackets, 1898. As substitutes for tailcoats, dinner jackets were originally worn with full dress accessories, including white waist coat.
1888 American tuxedo/dinner jacket, sometimes called a dress sack
Black tie worn at a dinner party in the 1940s
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A suit, also called a lounge suit, business suit, dress suit, or formal suit, is a set of clothes comprising a suit jacket and trousers of identical textiles generally worn with a collared dress shirt
Black tie
…jacket. In American English, the equivalent term tuxedo (or tux) is common. The dinner suit is a black, midnight blue, or white two- or three-piece suit, distinguished by satin or grosgrain jacket lapels and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers. It is worn with a white dress shirt with…
Actor Matt Smith wearing a tweed three-piece suit
A man dressed in a three-piece suit and bowler hat
Three-piece tweed suit
Comparison of two notched lapel cuts: English (left) and Spanish (right). The former is the most commonly seen notched lapel.