How To Wear A Dinner Jacket & Black Tie Guide

About this video

The Gazette team provides a comprehensive guide to dinner jackets, explaining what distinguishes them from tuxedos and other formal jackets, detailing the various styles and colors available, and instructing viewers on proper styling and accessories for evening events. They cover classic options like off-white and velvet dinner jackets, discuss construction details like lapel styles and button placement, and offer recommendations on where to purchase these garments.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team argues that dinner jackets are non-black or non-midnight blue formal jackets that come in colors like off-white, burgundy, bottle green, and purple, and should never be confused with smoking jackets or mess jackets
• The Gazette team recommends choosing a shawl collar for off-white dinner jackets and avoiding notched lapels, silk-faced lapels, or bright colors that make you overly conspicuous at formal events
• The Gazette team advises pairing dinner jackets with traditional black-tie accessories including pleated or marcella tuxedo shirts, black bow ties with varied textures, cummerbunds, patent leather court shoes or black oxfords, and coordinating pocket squares or boutonnieres for added sophistication

Episode details: published December 21, 2016 · 298K views · 12:48 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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