The State of Black Tie: Your Observations

[NassimBandini]

Anglo Italian
Spier & Mackay
Anthology

Same but in Europe and in the Spier & Mackay price range?

 

[ericgereghty]

1. Cream Jacket any configuration with self facing lapel
2. Petrol, Mid, or Sky blue velvet. Just light enough to provide contrast
3. Petrol, mid, or sky blue linen or tropical shawl dinner jacket with self facing lapel
4. Burma colored dinner jacket with self facing lapel. Any configuration

Would be curious to see visuals (if you have any) of 2 & 3.

1 & 4 I fully agree with, and think I'm trying to talk myself into versatility where it probably needn't exist.

 

[William Kazak]

Many of the sources I've found indicate that the jacket worn in the film did not have silk facing. See, for instance:

Bogart's Ivory Dinner Jacket in Casablanca » BAMF Style

Vitals Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, cynical “gin joint” manager and former arms dealer Casablanca, Morocco, December 1941 Film: Casablanca Release Date: November 26, 1942 Director: Michael Curtiz Background Although remembered today as one of the greatest romances to grace the screen, the Los...

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Casablanca: a lesson in ivory eveningwear | Thomas Mason

There are many claimants to the best Black Tie looks in movie history, writes Charlie Thomas, but nothing quite beats Bogart’s pitch-perfect ivory dinner jacket

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I wore one to my own wedding. No special facings on it.

 

[Sreezy36]

Would be curious to see visuals (if you have any) of 2 & 3.

1 & 4 I fully agree with, and think I'm trying to talk myself into versatility where it probably needn't exist.

Midnight and navy combined with sky blue works perfectly. Think about the UNC color combo.

Petrol/Steel blue will work as well. The Petrol is more of a SKY blue with a grey tone to it.

Mid Blue is good as long as there is enough contrast with midnight.

 

[Faux Brummell]

Black tie on our Hawaiian cruise!

 

[DorianGreen]

 

[hpreston]

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Excellent. A picture of a dinner jacket on a mannequin in the black tie thread!

Is this a piece being made for you? Or are you having a piece made that is similar and you’re looking for opinions?

 

[brax]

Dumb question that I haven’t seen addressed. I’m going to commission by fourth DJ. This will be a velvet smoking style. Should the pents also be velvet or can I use traditional barathea?

 

[Faux Brummell]

Dumb question that I haven’t seen addressed. I’m going to commission by fourth DJ. This will be a velvet smoking style. Should the pents also be velvet or can I use traditional barathea?

Traditional tuxedo trousers are by far the most common, but Douglas Fairbanks had this all-velvet dinner suit made in 1933.

 

[hpreston]

Dumb question that I haven’t seen addressed. I’m going to commission by fourth DJ. This will be a velvet smoking style. Should the pents also be velvet or can I use traditional barathea?

I lean traditional formal trousers.

 

[DorianGreen]

Dumb question that I haven’t seen addressed. I’m going to commission by fourth DJ. This will be a velvet smoking style. Should the pents also be velvet or can I use traditional barathea?

I would go for barathea because velvet is not recommendable for trousers, as it would wear out sooner than the jacket.

 

[The Chai]

Dumb question that I haven’t seen addressed. I’m going to commission by fourth DJ. This will be a velvet smoking style. Should the pents also be velvet or can I use traditional barathea?

Go velvet! It will be so slick! I assume you already have barathea trousers you can cycle through

 

[brax]

Go velvet! It will be so slick! I assume you already have barathea trousers you can cycle through

Jackets and pents are matched up. When I wear one I wear the other thus minimizing differences in shade due to use or cleaning. Thus whatever pents I choose will live with the velvet DJ. Unless I do two pairs …. huh.

 

[The Chai]

Jackets and pents are matched up. When I wear one I wear the other thus minimizing differences in shade due to use or cleaning. Thus whatever pents I choose will live with the velvet DJ. Unless I do two pairs …. huh.

1 pair velvet the other barathea? Unless you are performing as a crooner every night I doubt the wear and tear factor is gonna affect the velvet.

 

[classicalthunde]

Dumb question that I haven’t seen addressed. I’m going to commission by fourth DJ. This will be a velvet smoking style. Should the pents also be velvet or can I use traditional barathea?