Or, worse still, a "tux"? I'd only ever heard the term on American TV when I was at school and university - I then had about ten years without a black tie do(!) until the Christmas party a couple of years ago, when everybody was asking "are you going in your tux?".

Is this just a northern England thing, or has the word become common across the country in the past ten years (thanks no doubt schoolchildren apeing American high school prom culture as seen on TV)?

(No prizes for guessing that it's yet another thing that irritates the living shit out of me).

never had to call it that actually... :shifty:

usually it comes apart of an ensemble (i.e a suit) so to speak

Tuxedo doesn't flow well with my tongue, so Jacket or dinner jacket it is for me...

The tuxedo comes from a shorter informal smoking jacket that a tailor concocted for the Prince of Wales to attend the Tuxedo Park Club in New York in 1886. :bowtie:

No.

No. Neither do I call it a dinner jacket.

I'm intrigued now, Medo. Black tie? Penguin suit? Poncey toff gear?

Black tie, or just suit. :yes:

Sorry, its Tuxedo for sure from me. I'm totally influenced by American TV. The product of a mispent youth, too much Buffy :ohno:

But that specifically refers to the kind with the stupid shirt and the bow tie. Otherwise its just a suit.

'DJ'. Easy. Or, otherwise, 'black tie'.

Never tuxedo. Never. Not EVER, I tell you!

:)

always tuxedo or just "tux" but we do use the term "black tie event".

I said it once to you, and in your typical fashion, you made it out to be a much bigger deal than it should have been. ;)

I said it once to you, and in your typical fashion, you made it out to be a much bigger deal than it should have been. ;)

I was actually going to put "Yes (I'm Kara)" as one of the poll options :D

I sometimes say "tuxedo" and I sometimes say "dinner jacket". I'm a northerner. I'm not sure how significant any of that is but you did ask.

I call it a posh-suit....cos' i iz common, innit.

I don't like suits....i'm a casual kinda guy and they restrict me.

I just call it a suit :shifty:
I bought a suit for an interview and it was probably one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever worn.
I don't no how you 9-5 guys do it but I felt like a right prat.

Expensive suits feel amazing. I particulary like sipping champagne whilst wearing a top quality 'Armani'. Often I wear one in my penthouse at a luxury hotel in New York. Once I met a 'hooker' who later revealed herself to be called Vivian..a very 'pretty woman'. She was excellent at driving my supposed freind/lawyer's car, a 1990 Silver Lotus Esprit with a 'standard H' as Richard Ge...I mean I use to call it.

Anyway we fell in love...I jetted her to the opera, made love to her on a piano, and when Julia Robe..she left I was devastated.

Ultimatley I won her back by climbing up her 'back passage', and asking for her to come back to me. My suit looked royally pressed during the entire fil....event. Not once did I call it a tuxedo.

:lol:

Best quote I've heard all day.

I now realise I have been through Tuxedo Park in the suburbs of New York. This is where the name Tuxedo comes from and actually pre-dates dinner jacket by a few years. I still prefer dinner jacket though.
I have always admired the way that James Bond can get into the most incredible fights without his suit / dinner jacket getting in the slightest way ruffled. My suit looks like shit after two days in the office. :bowtie:

What was the movie where he came up out of the water in a wetsuit then peeled it off to reveal an immaculately pressed suit underneath it?

What was the movie where he came up out of the water in a wetsuit then peeled it off to reveal an immaculately pressed suit underneath it?

Goldfinger.
The best one ever made.
In actual fact the author Ian Fleming was a neighbour of Erno Goldfinger, the architect, and detested him. He hated the modern houses he had designed in Hampstead. He named the bad guy in the movie after him. When Goldfinger protested he threatened to change the name of the movie to "Goldprick".
The movie became the greatest Bond classic and Erno Goldfinger went on to design classic icons such as Trellick Tower in Notting Hill. :bash:

I grew up watching Friends, the X-Files and Saved By The Bell... so unfortunately, yes, I call it a tuxedo.

No it's a DJ.

Most people who have ever mentioned these strange things in my company have called them Tuxedo's.. or Tux's.

I would call them penguin suits, and those who wear them, stupid gits!

I have to wear them for my brass band concerts, and they're definitely Dinner Jackets.

I refer to it as Black Tie. That's it.

But the phrase, "Tuxedo Junction," sounds better than, "Dinner Jacket Junction."

That's a phrase? I thought it was just the name of a song.

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Formal wear, evening wear, dinner jacket, tuxedo, all one and the same thing. Doesn't matter what it's called, everyone seems to know what is meant. :)

What a journey home from Sao Paulo, missed connection at Miami due to US entry requirements of fingerprinting and photographing non resident aliens, other than Canadians but, we have to wait in the same lines. Nice to see the Brazilians reciprocating in Belem and fingerprinting and photographing US citizens while the rest of us proceeded ashore unhindered. Some American pax never even made it ashore and had to wait for Fortaleza to complete the procedure. Off again on Saturday for Barcelona, via Paris.

We call it a suit here. A tuxedo is with tails, is it not?

We call it a suit here. A tuxedo is with tails, is it not? Well in the GTA whenever a function requiring formal attire is advertised it is usually called a "black tie" affair. But like I said, everyone knows what is meant.