Argyle jacket with white tie?

[OC Richard]

Much of this thread goes to show how fashions and attitudes change.

I like to take the long view. So often people take a current attitude they hear voiced as if it was carved into a stone tablet and brought down from the mountaintop in ancient times. The attitude might be of recent origin, and I like knowing about such things.

Years ago an old Scottish lady was telling me how the Prince Charlie was THE dress jacket, as if it had always been the only Evening Dress jacket in existence, dating back to early times. I had to chuckle inside- the Prince Charlie was only a decade or so old when she was born.

And by the way the Prince Charlie was often worn with jabot in its early days, so Sir Sean isn't so far off the mark there.

BTW he has an interesting way of wearing his flashes...



So many people I run into feel "Evening Dress = Black Prince Charlie + Black Bow Tie". This 1:1 correspondence never existed... there have always been other jacket styles around, other colours of jackets around, other sorts of neckwear around.