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Perfect Your Black Tie (Tuxedo) – Menswear Experts' 11 Tips
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I have a red velvet dinner jacket that was gifted to me by my dad who wore it for his wedding, Now it has notched lapels and but i still wear it for my black tie events just because of the sentimental value so i think it could be an exception to the rules in menswear
Great vid but the red tie in a black tie even? You lost me there.
AskOkey full cut trousers and Dinner jacket 🧥
I don't have a dinner suit currently: because I have no occasion to wear one – I do wish I had, though: I miss dressing for dinner.
I wear a tuxedo quite a bit. My usual is to try changing my bowtie and cummerbund color, my shirt studs and cufflinks and if I can find one, a different type of dress shirt. I’d like to get a different style of eyeglass frame to up the game. I love Jack’s frames but can’t seem to find them. Can you help me out with this, perhaps? In any case, I’m usually complimented on my formal look and this tells me that I am on the right track. Formal wear is fun and doing it this way, makes it look like it should but allows for a more varied look. Which is what it’s really all about.
Just FYI: the colored jackets from the equestrian tradition aren’t just red. Traditionally, you wear them at hunt balls in the hunt colors. If you aren’t a member of the hunt, you wear black, much like your riding jacket or boots when you are a guest at a foxhunt.
Also, midnight blue tuxedos are considered quite correct. They often appear more black than black under artificial light.
Is it just me or do I feel like Sven has gotten a little more loose with Black Tie rules in his recent videos? Either way I'm all for it since I like how his main videos explain the classic rules and the follow up ones explain how to tastefully break them
Great video now Rafael I have a question for you as much as you preach formality aren’t you kind of being a bit of a hypocrite by wearing dinner jackets and and changing some things up in “”classic black tide? Now those things are fine like dinner jackets for creative black tie, but not classic black tie equals black tie please don’t wear dinner jackets ever for any traditional black tie.
I've become a fan of the royal blue or silver jackets. The one you have in this video is amazing.
how about pocket watch and tuxedo with cumberband
Great video, but there is a major faux pas here – the scarlet colour example is a UK or Commonwealth Officer’s mess dress uniform with regimental and rank insignia. If Preston is not currently a Captain in this regiment, he’s essentially wearing a costume and impersonating a soldier while wearing insignia he is not entitled to. Regulation uniforms should never be worn by civilians, unless they are attending a military event as past service members and given permission to wear uniform or accoutrement by current Commanding Officers.
One should never wear a watch with either black or white tie. Because the evening when it is worn is timeless. I have not been able to shoot many holes in the Gazette's posts; this is a major one….
Sometimes a tin-foil hat lends a very elegant touch!
I got a vintage after six midnight blue tuxedo for 4 bucks a thrift store in my town
No white dinner jackets North of Alexandria!
As a lady: I love that jacket your wearing burgundy velvet .
I upgrade my formal wear in many ways. 1.) Black patent pumps with grosgrain bow (no longer available by Allen-Edmonds), 2.) high end studs and cufflinks in onyx and mother of pearl. 3.) For winter/holidays a black velvet Ralph Lauren Purple jacket and of course, always…4.) a subtle contrasting pocket square and '5.) fun' stockings. 6,( a stunning solitaire diamond ring. CHEERS!
Kamarbandh is Indian word 👌👍
how should you buy shirts because as a late teenager who loves shirts and ties I can't find any shirts which fit my build and accommodate for my muscles without it having an enormous bulge around the belly any tips?
A watch? Oh dear…
What was the name of the website around the 4:40 mark that allowed you to make a jacket?
What is the best tie to wear with just a waistcoat. And how can you wear a double breasted waistcoat in a formal dress code . Also I love this Chanel
I just received an invitation with black and white attire dress code, what does it mean ?
This has nothing to do with the current video is it okay to wear button suspenders on trousers that have belt loops
The red military “dinner jackets” are surely mess jackets. Also the jackets with kilts are called Princess Charlie jackets
NO! People today can't even handle dressing elegantly in a dress down environment let alone be encouraged to experiment with the classic black tie , so NO! Otherwise you will create a black tie world of unspeakable buffoonery!
I really needed that video a year ago :D. I wasn't really sure what to wear but according to that video, I did quite well
I have a vintage boutaniaire which is cut out of Mediterranean red coral. Looks awesome.
I'm not a big fan of "creative" black tie. Black tie was meant to be a dresscode so that everyone would look more or less the same so that people could focus on the event and let their personality shine through what they have to say in a conversation.
I am new to the sartorial world and have had an exponential increase in knowledge with the detailed videos! Keep it up. You have a great team Raphael … I hope to learn more and apply this to my wardrobe but in the interim I hope you have reward your team with their favourite Fort Belvedere accessories this Xmas!
Another great black tie video.
I ordered a grosgrain bow tie and shoelaces to match my tuxedo for my wedding, and I was very impressed with how they looked. I always enjoy pulling it out for the big gala at my work every year.
Will definitely order from Fort Belvedere again if I want to change things up.
A lot of the combinations shown in this video border on the clownish and are more at home in a 70s disco night or Bonnie M. reenactment band…
I just discovered that my tuxedo anctually has a linked button closure added to the normal button. I alwas wondered what this strange configuration was for. Thanks to your video and article, now i know…
Please do a winter wear episode on extreme cold weather.
Is it de rigueur to keep the double-breasted dinner jacket always buttoned? I see most single-breasted dinner jackets unbuttoned. P.S. Preston as a 19th century officer sporting a moustache is the best thing ever!
Does anyone know what Eton called that style of tuxedo shirt? I'm intrigued, but I can't find a proper photo of it anywhere.
Hi Raphael. Love your videos. Very useful and interesting information indeed and, as so often with Gentleman's Gazette videos, truly inspirational. However, there is one thing that I am struggling to understand. Why do you like Creed's "Green Irish Tweed" so much? The scent is strikingly similar to Davidoff's "Cool Water" which was popular during my teenage years in Germany in the 1990s. When I tested Green Irish Tweed that effect was so strong that I had flashbacks to that time and had to wash it off after a while. Anyway, keep the good content coming.
I'm a sartorially conservative British guy, so the word tuxedo cuts through me like a wolf howl, but other than – love this video!
Great information. Now I need to go to an event where these will be good. Maybe get into a gala dinner.
fun fact: Green carnations are a victorian symbol of homosexuality!
9:29 that's not a mess jacket, that's a prince charlie jacket. The backs are very different.
3:43 They adamit black and white simple color pallete looks good, I dont know why they hate on black suits and and on the black shirts.
I think they just want to sell accesories, and black doesnt need that much
A watch with black tie? Absolutely not.
Frank Sinatra loved orange pocket squares with his Dinner Jacket. When it comes to boutonnieres I go with real flowers. There are always cut flowers on my dinner table and I choose the flowers with an eye to having them do double duty as boutonnieres.
I have a black dinner jacket and I wear it with grey tuxedo pants with a single galon, I think it looks great!
Prototype shoes? Please make them a reality!
I miss the old intro 😭
I really Love the black tie videos ❤❤ I would like to make a question, what do you think about using a white marcella waistcoat with a dinner suit, thank you very much and I really appreciate your videos and the passion you all put into 🎉
You can never go wrong with a party shirt. In military tradition they look just like a tuxedo shirt should, everywhere that is exposed, but the back and sleeves are covered with the most bold and brash patterns imaginable. Alma Mater logos, dogs, peacock feathers…. All out of sight out of mind
How did the Belvedere bash go? I’d love to see more footage and pictures from the event.