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Gentlemen, I am once again in need of your opinions/advice, please. I want to surprise my husband with an opera cape for Christmas. I know they are very difficult, virtually impossible, to find anymore - at least in the style and fabrics (e.g., genuine silk satin lining) that I envision...

Out of curiosity does anyone here still have Evening Dress (if any of you still wear it) or would you (if you did) cut in a manner condusive to ballroom dancing? I am referring to details such as high arm scyes, fitted dancing pumps, etc. I know that many of my friends have such details cut...

I am well aware of the rarity of White tie events in most places in the world, but had a question for the AAAC community at large. Do the particulars of Formal Dress really make a difference for anyone here? I'm not reffering to the "Must do's" and "Must not's" such as peak lapels, or proper...

I read a post on the fashion forum from a year or two ago, and it concerned the status of President Obama's collar at the Alfred Dinner, and at the Gridiron dinner. The forums essentially discussed the impropriety of Obama's white tie, and to an extent, McCain's. Let that be for another forum...

I noticed a curiosity while watching the wedding ceremony of the swedish princess and the future swedish prince: All guys -- white tie -- let their waistcoat slip out below the fronts of the tailcoat. From "Dressing the man" by Alan Flusser, I read the following Is this plainly wrong, or is it...

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Gentlemen: I am looking for information on where to buy several full dress white tie outfits for an evening wedding reception in New York City this fall at a traditional social club. Given the groom does not have unlimited financial resources, he was thinking about purchasing the complete...

I've been lucky enough to get tickets to Magdalen College Commemoration Ball this year, which has a white tie dress code. The ball committee have arranged a discount with Moss Bros in Oxford, but I want to make sure I get one that fits properly (ie. trousers high enough and tailcoat and...

Gentlemen, Get out your tailcoats, white gloves and top hats. This is the place to wear them... The Pleasure of Your Company is requested for A Christmas Ball Friday, December 12, 2008 Join us for an elegant evening of Viennese Waltzing, Polka, Champagne and authentic Austrian...

Dear Ask Andy Forum Members, I desperately need some assistance, please. I am trying to find a place that can rent tailcoats for a white tie function. The young men who are renting these are students, and need to watch their pocketbooks. I called Men's Wearhouse and was quoted a price of...

What's up with that? McCain is wearing proper detachable wing collar.

A wonderful opportunity for all white tie enthusiasts in or near Washington, D.C. The organisation hosting it is the National Society of Arts and Letters. Yes, I know that one should not say "white tie optional," but I will give them some credit for at least trying...

...in my top hat, and my white tie, and my tails... Yesterday I was an attendant in the wedding of a friend, and to my delight we wore white tie. I found a '60s vintage Hickey-Freeman dress suit in a local vintage store, and cobbled together the rest of the outfit via Ebay and other various...