black tie, white tie

[Highland Logan]

Check out this site The Essential Black Tie Guide, it should answer all of your questions.

Frank

[Highlander31]

The host sets the dress for the occasion. Whether black tie or white tie, when compared to a tuxedo, the kilt is always the more elegant presentation.

[Standard]

Check out this site The Essential Black Tie Guide, it should answer all of your questions.

Frank

What a great website, thanks for posting. I too have never been to a white-tie event, but have attended black-tie on occasion.

[bunchdescendant]

I vaguely remember my Senior Ball-

White velvet tux/black pants, white ruffled shirt, black velvet bow tie (clip-on) and accessories that looked very cheap.

I was measured extensively by the outfit I hired it from only to find the only things that fit were the jacket and bow tie. Shirt too large, pants too large, shoes to small, (wore glossy black cowboy boots instead) Cummerbund would have fit two of me, two different types of studs. Can you say fiasco? I had untold numbers of safety pins holding me together that night. Of course mom waited until it was too late to get anything replaced to go pick it all up.

I have pics of that night but I will not post them for fear of becoming a black tie don't thread.

If I turned up at a Burns Supper looking like that, I would turn myself away.

Ray