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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    ==================== End of quote ====================== My belated apologies to Radio Head for my mistakes. 175 years ago. About time for a reconciliation I would think by submitting an application for membership. 1936 - the Year of the Three Kings. So sad the Golden Age of...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    Well, now I'm even more confused than ever because it appears the dinner jacket trousers shows double stripes too!
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    Dress coats

    =================== End of quote ======================= Going through the contents of Moustache's initial post, of course he is referring to gentlemen's outerwear, such as overcoats, topcoats and raincoats.
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    Trenchcoats, still a faux-pas for teens?

    Shoes maketh a man. Apart from a gentleman's hat (avoid the gangsterly-looking type), consider wearing a cap toe or wingtip lace-up. Make sure the trouser legs showing under the bottom of your trench coat are not those Chicago gangster-type with wide white stripes. Avoid putting your hands...
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    Dress coats

    Take heart! I'm converting to the Raincoat Brigade. My orders went out for a Herringbone Chesterfield, a Navy Cashmere British Warm, a Khaki Gabardine Raglan raincoat plus a Royal Blue Gabardine 4-brass button DB blazer earlier this month.
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    Waistcoat for DB Jacket - SB or DB?

    ======================= End of quote ================== Well, I was hoping to rely on the valuable expertise and past experiences of all of you here so that I could cut some corners. Funds are a bit tight, so I am trying not to have to experiment. As to your question, I think a 3-piece SB...
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    Waistcoat for DB Jacket - SB or DB?

    ================== End of quote ======================= Designer clothing is too expensive for me, I'm afraid. Also, their non-conservative styles are not my kind of tea, even if I've the money. As long as it's not pure black, I wonder whether it's OK to overkill so that I'm one up on...
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    Waistcoat for DB Jacket - SB or DB?

    I understand that a 3-piece SB suit is regarded as more formal than a 2-piece DB suit, which in turn is regarded as more formal than a 2-piece SB suit. But the 3-piece DB suit is regarded as even more formal than the 3-piece SB suit. For the 3-piece DB suit, should the waistcoat be SB, or...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    ===================== End of quote ====================== Wingman, can you see any stitching on the thick central cord? Are there one on each side that connect the cord to each of the two ribbons? For the single stripe trousers, do you see any stitching on the face of the stripe next to...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    ===================== End of quote ==================== Hi, Wing Nut Can you see the threads on the face of the satin stripes on both edges of the same stripe?
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    Dress shoes

    ==================== End of quote ===================== If they keep the shape of the shoe and the bugs away, while the shoes simply air themselves, they've done their job.
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    Cuffless trousers - snagging problem

    ==================== End of quote ======================= Wouldn't it be a strange military where uniforms are worn with braces?
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    =================== End of quote ===================== Sorry, Marc, I'm not that chap. Clue, I am a true blue Chinaman if you haven't figured out that one yet.
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    Cuffless trousers - snagging problem

    ===================== End of quote ====================== What is the fishtail for then?
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    Cuffless trousers - snagging problem

    ==================== End of quote ====================== Thanks, Marc, for the enlightening image. And I can only say great minds think alike, ha, ha, ha. But why should the fishy gimmick work when the cuff will still meet the heel with the wearer standing still? Shouldn't the original...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    Quote:Originally Posted by Marc Chevalier When it comes to being "comrades in the Revolution", I'm more a Menshevik than a Bolshevik. Extremism of any kind repels me. =================== End of quotes ==================== Eventually, the Mensheviks won out w/o going to the guillotine...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    =================== End of quote ===================== Yes, Manton, I really like your book. In fact, read it over and over again several times. Regarding the blazer, not only could I not figure out what was serge, so were hopsack and fresco another two cloths of unknown familiarity to...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    Hope you're not kidding us, Manton, because the author of The Suit is a Mr. Nicholas Antongivanni. But if you're really HIM, Wow! Sir, I can only express delight and say that it is a great privilege to be acquianted with such a world-class authority on sartorial matters. I have even ordered...
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    =================== End of quote ===================== All of us? All? Do you mean there's more than a whole cucumber in it? Don't know about a sandwitch, but in a cucumber sandwich, butter also; but why this question??
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    Cuffless trousers - snagging problem

    Hi, Tomasso Thank you for your comments. Could you kindly elaborate a little more on what you meant by cutting uncuffed trousers with a fishtail? What is the fishtail?

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