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Eveningwear Part Three: Getting Weird With It

Eveningwear Part Three: Getting Weird With It

You're about to see men experiment. They're going to break rules. Some of them are trying to get right to the brink of disaster, without going over. That brinksmanship is how great outfits happen. Courage in the face of "rules."

Eveningwear Part Two: Simple Variations

Eveningwear Part Two: Simple Variations

Ivory and color and a couple of other twists. Should be fun.

Eveningwear Part One: Classic Black Tie

Eveningwear Part One: Classic Black Tie

Eveningwear makes me happy. It's tailoring that's exclusively for parties. No business: just weddings, galas, holiday parties, fancy dinner parties... It's a symbol of celebration, and here, I'm going to celebrate it. This is the first album, and the simplest—classic black tie.

How Formal is Formalwear?

How Formal is Formalwear?

While it's mired in tradition and rules, I'm going to take this opportunity to express something about eveningwear: I'm going to explain the odd sense in which eveningwear is *more casual* than lounge suiting.