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Definition Full-Dress Waistcoat Full-Dress Shirt
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Coming in 2009
In the early years of this guide's development, I
regarded the most formal incarnation of evening wear as little more
than a black tie footnote. This guide was intended to be a practical tool
for the average man which by definition meant it had no use for a discussion of a ritual that even in its heyday
was reserved for only the most elite members of society and is now virtually abandoned by even
those select few. Yet the longer I researched the storybook-like history of evening wear
and the more I heard from passionate stalwarts of this tradition, the more I realized
that white tie was not only an integral part of the study of black tie
but that it also deserved far more respect that being relegated to a measly appendix
in the history of the comparatively pedestrian tuxedo.
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