![]() ![]() ![]() It is worn with a white dress shirt with standing or turndown collar and link cuffs, a black bow tie, typically an evening waistcoat or a cummerbund, and black patent leather dress shoes or court pumps. The dinner suit is a black, midnight blue or white two- or three-piece suit, distinguished by satin or grosgrain jacket lapels and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers. In American English, the equivalent term tuxedo (or tux) is common. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically by its principal element for men, the dinner suit or dinner jacket. Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and American conventions for attire in the 19th century. ![]()
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