Fitting a Tuxedo

Fitting a Tuxedo monkeysee.com See how the experts do it. I’m Ted Poulos for Sarno & Son Tuxedo and today we’re going to show you how to choose a right tuxedo for your wedding or special event. Dominic my model is going to demonstrate the proper fit of a tuxedo. Dominic is wearing the traditional black pleated trousers and the wing collared shirt. The shirt collar should fit snug but not too tight around the neck or you have about an inch play with your finger. This way the color is going to hug nicely, the shoulder line is correct, the front placket of the shirt is going to lay straight. The bow tie should fit comfortably around the neck and should be the right tension where it’s not pulling the collar too tight. This is a correct tension for a bow tie, if it was any tighter you would see the collar would buckle up on the side. How does that feel? [Good]. The trousers have an adjustable weight as do all tuxedo rental trousers. There’s a clasp on each side of the trouser where you could open the waist. The adjustment should be made equal on both sides this way the front pleat of the trouser is going to hang real straight. You don’t want to pull him too tight but you also want to height the trousers up or the waistline of the trouser is right near the belly button. This way the front pleat is going to hang right on top of the shoe. As you see in the bottom of the trousers, this would be an incorrect length for a proper trouser. The trousers should have a little bit of a break on the front so when you’re walking you’re not showing a lot of your socks. In the back of the trousers you could see at the shoe line, the trousers should come right between the bottom of the shoe and the hilt and this is the correct length for the trousers. The tuxedo vest is an important accoutrement for the ensemble and it should be adjusted properly. In this particular vest before we adjust it you could see that there’s a lot of play in the midsection. Most formal vests have an adjustment either in the back or on the inside. This particular vest has an inside adjustment called a tunnel adjuster by pulling the strap you can button the vest on the inside button the adjuster and it synches the vest through the midsection. The vest should just be tight enough where it has a nice drape or the lines are perfectly straight in the front. All buttons of the vest should be buttoned. Now we’re going to add the tuxedo jacket. The first coat that I’m going to add is one that’s an ill fitting jacket. I want to you show you how a tuxedo should not fit and this particular jacket you can see that the sleeves are too long that the coat is too big in the midsection and if you turn around the back your shoulder line is too excessive. Turn back around, a proper fitting jacket will show you how it should hang on the sleeves and also in the body. In putting the tuxedo jacket on you want to lift it up in the back of the collar so it hugs the top collar of the shirt nicely, adjust it in the front so we have a nice drape in the jacket and when we button the top button on a two-button jacket, you should have one to two inches of plaid in the mid section. If it was too tight the jacket would buckle on the sides of the jacket and this is a proper length of the jacket. Turn around in the back Dominic; you could see that the back of the coat just covers the customer’s seat. If it was too short in the body this is how it would appear and if it was too long it would drag you down in height and in the front the sleeves are hitting at the wrist bone which shows about a half inch or an inch of French cuff and this is a perfect fit for a tuxedo jacket. And this is how a tuxedo jacket and trousers should properly fit, now we’re going to show you ultra formal day time attire.