It's perfectly fine. Here are my 5 ways to wear a dinner jacket: 1. Wear it with a sweatpant like #1. Don't mess with a classic. 2. Wear it with swimming trousers. Show up to the beach in style. 3. Wear it with the button opening on the back. To add a touch of tasteful personal flair. 4. Wear it with your birthday suit (or, if your local police are unfashionable sticklers for the rule of law, wear it with your underwear), for that elegant male stripper look. 5. Just don't wear a damn dinner jacket if you're not going to wear it properly.
@@MichaelOssen but even those are as basic as can be. Hey hasn‘t got any sense of style or aesthetic. This guy just throws together anything and tries to justify it by throwing around some nonsense fashion terms. Nr 2 for example is the most generic black tie look there is... Even the cufflinks are boring as fuck and the trousers are way too wide... this guy would do much better as an accountant than as a stylist...
As much as I love Mr.Porter and what they do, track pants are for the gym or track, not to be worn with a dinner jacket. Maybe it's just me being a tailor by trade, but tradition is tradition for a reason, you can be creative with a tuxedo without ruining the whole thing with track pants.
Completely agree, it’s absurd. If you want to wear sweatpants and sneakers great but, there is NO PLACE for such attire at a formal affair. Seriously, Mr Porter get a grip
My guess is to save time? If you actually look at the other videos the models also wear pre-tied ties as well. Lets be honest, nobody wants to sit through this guy tying a bow tie for each and ever outfit.
Facts. Completely agree. Looks 2 and 3 would be good with the exception that you use a self-tie bow tie. Pre tied bow ties make you look like a child who can not tie your own. Boring. Bland. Cheap.
If a person is a 'reluctant tuxedo wearer' he should just not wear one, not try and jazz it up wearing it with fucking sweat pants. Number 2 is merely a black jacket with jeans for god's sake! Number 4 is just a black suit. This 'stylist' is a joker. A dinner suit doesn't need to be 'updated', there's a reason it is considered a classic.
Apart from anything else, the reason for the limited colour palette and style with gentlemen's black tie is to draw the attention to the ladies' attire. A lot of these looks have nothing to pull them together into one cohesive outfit.
The second one is still offensively bad, the black shirt is eurojank, and he seems to lack basic understanding of certain style taboos like showing the shirt under the button.
#1... business on the top, saggy diaper pants on bottom... pretty much would have to be a model to pull that off without looking like a joke. The rest are great.
#1 - The I failed in life look. #2 - The fashion less monotone with zero contrast look. #3 - The baggy trouser unstructured look. #4 - The 'I know nothing' look (necktie for black tie event and 2 button jacket, should only be one button you troglodytes)! #5 - The decent look (a bit unstructured at the shoulders). It's all in the accessories chaps, if you are fed up of that move to a velvet dinner jacket or smoking jacket. Not this hideous stuff.
OK, here's what this video should've looked like (in my opinion anyway) 1) ultimate black tie-1 button, barathea peak lapel tuxedo with 3 button u shape evening waistcoat. Marcella turndown collar shirt with onyx studs. Patent leather Oxfords, white linen pocket square 2) Simple elegance - 1 button shawl lapel tuxedo with grosgrain lapel, bow tie and cummerbund. Simple evening shirt with covered button placket 3) vintage style-same barathea tuxedo as look 1, but accessorised with starched bib front and detachable wing collar. V shape backless evening waistcoat in black barathea or white marcella. Opera pumps and white boutounniere. 4) velvet heaven - dark navy /midnight blue velvet shawl lapel smoking jacket with grosgrain lapel and accompanying bow tie. Black wool and mohair evening trouser. Same marcella shirt as look 1.Navy monogrammed velvet evening slippers. White linen pocket square. Oh, and a black velvet evening waistcoat. 5) summer elegance-ivory peak lapel tuxedo jacket with red boutounniere (a la seen connery in goldfinger) pleated front evening shirt with mother of pearl dress studs. Lightweight silk and mohair black evening trouser. Black silk cummerbund. Patent leather Oxfords. 6) White tie! Why not wear the classic in men's evening wear, with marcella waistcoat, white bow tie and bib front shirt with removable wing collar. White boutounniere, and opera pumps.
This stylist is the biggest troll evah. I love how normally he dresses on himself but he always makes the model look what I would call expensive ridiculous mess. LOL
Why so many pre-tied bow ties? The last look is the best, third one would be nice too but the pants don't seem to go well with the jacket. Nice to see different perspectives though, even though I personally wouldn't wear any except the last.
Im a 20year old and i never get the weather to wear tux or the time to wear suits. i always go for the classic white tee and black jeans with moccasins or sometimes suede or just random trainers
@thezombiespork. The classic dinner jacket look is a turned down collar, wing collars should only be worn at white tie events, so the material of the bow tie is not seen against the collar. All these 'takes' on a dinner jacket defeat the point of black tie convention. Black tie when worn correctly will make any gentleman look great. Black tie means black tie, which is a Peak or shawl lapel jacket single buttoned unless double breasted. Trousers should never have belt loops and the waist should be covered with a cummerbund or a scoop front Dinner Jacket waistcoat. Just remember fashion changes, proper style stays. A correctly fitting and styled Dinner jacket (or tuxedo for our friends over the pond) will only need to be replaced when it wears out. Oh, and as fir Italian's dressing better. The Dinner Jacket came from England.....
i hate the way a black jacket, black shirt and a black tie, it looks awful and doesn't give you a mysterious it looks stupid. Although too each his own i guess, its a good thing he used a different shade of shirt.
The dinner jacket is such an elegant piece of attire. Its hard to visage it outside of its conventional usage. Saying that one birthday I wore my dinner jacket with a white collar bar shirt, black woven tie and khaki jeans paired with Clarks desert boots and it worked fairly well i thought.
I like them all except the first one with the grey track suit pants but I guess that's what fashion is isn't it, you're own take on what you think looks good and expressing
Couldn't believe when I saw #1 ! Really ? The other looks were OK: liked #2 and #4. I'd prefer better fitting trousers for all the looks to show off the Dinner Jacket.
I always thought that black suit was easy to pull off because its such a essentiel part of your wardrobe until i owned one. I have darker skin tone more yellow and navy blue looks way better on me than black.
The problem is always the trousers. It's not that they are wide; it's that they are too lose on the models and therefore ill-fitting. Mr May might want to consider going a full size down.
Tuxedo is a “dress down” dress up code. A chance for men to look elegant and not try to outdo each other and yet being gentlemanly to allow the ladies to stand out. The difference between these types of dress styles and the real black tie dress style is one style is akin to sporting a massive gold gaudy wrist watch with lots of finger rings, gold chains and bling, driving a gold plated Porsche or the other style is wearing an elegant unobtrusively expensive leather strapped wrist watch with just one small family ring or a simple wedding ring while driving an expensive stylish Bentley or BMW. Both may cost money, but which speaks of modesty, style snd class?
It appears that the best silhouette of the bunch would go to Mr. midnight. I'd be a tad more enthusiastic about the princely style if that blazer was made of something other than velvet
I never see big and tall guys in these style videos. Us athletes like to dress well too but everything is always catered to slim fit. I like trim fit...no nut huggers and tight shirts.
With the amount of different and great clothing and brands available at Mr Porter that this guy has to work with, it's a damn shame he came up with only 1-2 decent looks...needs a lot of work and more thought.
Wear an actual self tie bow tie, Tuxedos are no belts, side adjusters. Pleated shirt, cufflinks, studs or covers, 3 button waist coat or cumberbun. Satin lapels, shawl or peek, satin strip down the legs, polished nice dress shoe,. No sweat pants, no sneakers, Formal.... all the way.
