Formal Tuxedos for Daytime

Formal Tuxedos for Daytime monkeysee.com See how the experts do it. I’m Ted Poulos with Sarno & Son Tuxedo. Today I’m going to show you how to choose a tuxedo for your wedding. I have Brian with me who’s going to demonstrate the look of an ultra formal daytime attire. Ultra formal came to existent back in the early teens, early 20’s or late teens early 20’s and its back when the tuxedo started evolving. There was a young lady named Emily Post who wrote the book on etiquette. In fact at that time there was basically only four tuxedo styles. Planning a wedding that is one step above formality in which you’re having at least 300 guests. The guests are required to wear a tuxedo to your wedding, in other words the imitation is black tie, the formality of the gown is probably the most formal that a wedding gown and bridesmaid dresses can be. Then the groom has a specific look. It’s one notch above a formal tuxedo and that’s an ultra formal tuxedo such as Brian is wearing. Brian is wearing the gray cutaway jacket. It’s a cutaway because it’s a one button jacket. It cuts away in a front to a swallowtail in the back as we can see the back of the jacket, it has a pleat, comes down to a swallowtail. The accessories that are with the gray cutaway jacket are also very specific. The vest that Brian is wearing is called a dove gray vest or banker’s gray. The tie is an ascot tie. The shirt is a quarter inch plate wing colored shirt. These are very specific items that should be worn with a great cutaway. The trousers are a hickory stripe trouser and the shoes of course are a black pattern finish shoe. This is the attire for the groom for an ultra formal wedding in the daytime that takes place before 4:00 o’clock P.M. Now I have Dominic in the ultra formal attire for the best man, the ushers and the fathers. Dominic is wearing a complimenting outfit to the great cutaway that we just saw Brian wear. Dominic is wearing the gray stroller. The tie is a foreign hand tie with the same pattern as the ascot tie. The shirt that Dominique is wearing is a same quarter inch pleated front shirt except the collar is a spread collar shirt opposed to the wing collar shirt that we had Brian wearing. The vest is the same vest dove gray or banker’s gray vest. The jacket is a two-button jacket. It’s a gray stroller jacket. It has peak lapels on the front. You’ll notice there’s no satin on the front of the lapels that is considered a self-face lapel and a self face top collar. The top collar is buttoned, the trousers are the same trousers a hickory stripe trouser. This completes the look for the best man, the ushers, and the fathers. Now we’re going to take a look at Brian and Dominic together in the two ultra formal attires with Brian in the gray cutaway that the groom had wear and Dominic in a gray stroller jacket and then next I will show you the look of the ultra formal evening wedding.