Formal Shirt Styles
Jon on Jan 16th 2008
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Components of Formal Dress
For Men’s White tie
- Tailcoat
- Formal Trousers, (with satin stripes on the left and right sides) which are never cuffed
- White pique bow tie
- White pique vest
- White pique-front shirt
- Cufflinks and studs
- Black patent leather shoes (or, as has been the norm more recently, black dress shoes)
- Suspenders may also be worn
For Men’s Black tie
- Tuxedo jacket or dinner jacket
- Formal Trousers, (with satin stripes on the left and right sides) which are never cuffed
- Formal shirt, which may have a wing collar, a standard collar, or a band collar, and may have a pleated, standard, or pique front (or may have a ruffled front)
- A bow tie or long tie
- A vest (worn with either a bow tie or a long tie) or a cummerbund (worn only with a bow tie)
- Black patent leather shoes (or, as has been the norm more recently, black dress shoes)
- Cufflinks and studs
- Suspenders may also be worn