subject: Choosing The Right Tux For Each Occasion [print this page] Tux and formal wear options are easy to choose for any special event once you understand the tuxedo types available and know the formality of the occasion. You just match the type of coat with the affair and add your tux accessories accordingly. Let's start by taking a look at the wedding tux.
Wedding Tuxedos
The focus of a wedding is generally on the bride's gown, as well as the gowns worn by the bridal party. However, a complementary wedding tux for the groom is just as important. You have many designer options like a Calvin Klein wedding tux, a Ralph Lauren tux, or a Giorgio Bissoni tux, so the best thing to do is educate yourself on all the wedding tux options available so you can choose exactly what you want. The groom and groomsmen can always make an impressive statement by selecting the right wedding tux.
To help you make best selection for the groom's wedding tux, it is important to match the tux to the formality of the wedding.
The Semiformal Wedding Tux
For a semiformal wedding, men can wear a fine designer suit like a Ralph Lauren suit or Calvin Klein suit, but a wedding tux is still generally recommended. At a daytime wedding, you want a dark gray or black sack coat or gray waistcoat, a white pleated or off-white standard shirt, long necktie, and black business shoes. For an evening winter wedding, choose a dark tuxedo or business suit, white shirt, and coordinating shoes. For an evening summer wedding is appropriate to wear a lighter colored or navy designer suit such as a Ralph Lauren suit or Calvin Klein suit, or a tuxedo with a white shirt, long necktie, and coordinating shoes.
The Formal Wedding Tux
For a formal daytime wedding, choose a gray or black morning coat (also known as a cutaway cost), or gray waistcoat with gray, striped trousers, a stiffly starched white turn with turndown collar or dress ascot, gray gloves, and black, patent leather shoes. If the wedding will be held in the evening, then you want to wear a black tailcoat and matching trousers, a white pique waistcoat, white, bosom shirt with wing collar that has been starched, a white bowtie, white gloves, and black patent leather shoes. Designer tuxedos like Ralph Lauren wedding tuxes and Calvin Klein wedding tuxes include many of these options so you can choose the right look for your event.
Special Event Tuxedos
In choosing the right style of formal wear, consider the time of day your event starts, the formality of the event, and the dress requirements listed on your invitation. The tuxedo formal wear you decide upon may be a simple designer Ralph Lauren suit or a formal Fumagalli's or Calvin Klein tux.
To help you better understand and select the proper tuxedo apparel, here is a guide to common formal wear terms:
Cutaway coat - a long coat usually in dark grey, worn for morning weddings.
Designer - fashion formal wear uniquely designed by the top menswear names, such as Calvin Klein, Fumagelli, Geoffrey Beene, Giorgio Bissoni, Neil Allyn, and Ralph Lauren.
Dinner jacket - formal standard length evening jacket with notched or shawl collar, in white or ivory only.
Full dress tails or tailcoat - short in the front and long in the back, the black coat for the most formal occasions.
Regular coat - the formal coat length which extends to the second knuckle, worn at daytime or evening occasions.
Tails - high end formal dress coat with a cosmetic vent in the back of the coat, creating the rear tails. Reserved for the most formal, evening occasions.
Tuxedo - the standard formal coat length, with single or double breasted satin lapels. Suitable for almost all formal occasions, including weddings, prom and black tie events.
Waist coat / Eton / Spencer - a coat that is tight fitting and ends at the waist. Worn at evening functions with matching or contrasting trousers.
Let's not forget the color issue too. Black or grey formal wear offers timeless elegance. To add a touch of color, accent your look with a colored vest, pocket square or cummerbund. White tuxedos are only for certain tropical climates; it is best to avoid them. Pastel colored tuxedos are starting to come back, but steer clear of them too.
Lastly, did you know you can own a tuxedo or designer suit such as a Ralph Lauren suit or Calvin Klein suit for the same price as renting one? You will also find that with the right choice, you can use the tuxedo for all your future events too.
