2007-09-09 02:41:08 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
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2007-09-09 02:56:08 · update #1
Every American child sustains a blow to the head. They are never quite 'right' after that.
2007-09-09 04:03:09 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They invented the dinner jacket as a more comfortable form of dress than tails. it is so like a lounge suit they the Tuxedo was invented to stop the shirt working it's way above the trousers. In UK A dinner Jacket is understodd to incluse a tuxedo if so required but is not always part of the DJ. In the states it is hence the short hand description. My theory anyway
2007-09-09 05:39:54 · answer #2 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Dinner Jacket
2016-10-19 06:17:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tuxedo In 1860, Henry Poole made a short evening or smoking jacket for the Prince of Wales to wear at informal dinner parties at Sandringham. In 1886, a Mr. James Potter of Tuxedo Park, New York visited London and subsequently was invited by the Prince to spend a weekend at Sandringham. He was also advised that he could have a smoking jacket made by the Prince’s tailors, Henry Poole & Co.
When the Potters returned to New York, Mr. Potter proudly wore his new smoking jacket at the Tuxedo Park Club and fellow members soon started having copies made for themselves which they adopted as their informal uniform for club “stag” dinners. As a result, the dinner jacket became known as a Tuxedo or Tux in America
2007-09-09 02:53:12 · answer #4 · answered by Quizard 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The word tuxedo is American for men's evening dress; dinner jacket also is used, but mostly in the Northeastern U.S. Either usage, denotes and connotes the full suit of clothes. The tuxedo's history dates from 1860, when Henry Poole & Co. (Savile Row's founders), made a short smoking jacket for the Prince of Wales to wear at informal dinner parties.
Per sartorial legend, in spring of 1886, because of his pretty wife, Cora, Mr James Potter, a rich man from New York, was invited by Prince Edward VII of the United Kingdom to Sandringham, his Norfolk hunting estate. When Potter asked the Prince's dinner dress recommendation, he sent Potter to Henry Poole and Co., in London. On returning to New York, Potter's dinner suit proved popular at the Tuxedo Park Club; the clubmen copied him, soon making it their informal dining uniform.
2007-09-09 02:50:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of a dinner jacket being called a tuxedo.
2007-09-09 02:48:53 · answer #6 · answered by LolaC☼ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Tuxedo usually has a tail,a dinner jacket is that (a dinner jacket) then there,s the Blazer which is similar to a Dinner Jacket.
2007-09-09 03:00:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because that's the word for it.
If you check the dictionary for dinner jacket, you are referred to tuxedo. Also, if you check Emily Post's information on formal attire, it's called a tuxedo.
In the U.S., what is referred to as a dinner jacket is usually a white/off-white jacket that is worn with black tuxedo trousers.
2007-09-09 05:48:50 · answer #8 · answered by ds37x 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Possibly because the original USA citizens were not out of the 'top drawer' of British society and the conception of a 'dinner jacket' came to the USA via Mexico. Sounds Spanish to me.
Why do you think Superman wears his underpants over his trousers? Because pants are trousers in the US. What do they call underpants? Could it be shorts?
2007-09-09 23:10:21 · answer #9 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they don't, they call it a jacket, or a sport jacket. Not a Tux, A Tuxedo is a formal suit with a bow tie and a cumber bun, just like it is in the UK.
2007-09-09 21:49:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
a dinner jacket is not called a tuxedo, where did you get that idea?
2007-09-09 02:47:42 · answer #11 · answered by dali333 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋