Here is where language can be confusing. Did you find a TUXEDO / DINNER SUIT or a FULL DRESS SUIT / TAILS?


If you are starting with a tux jacket ( shaped like a blazer only black, with peaked lapels) you can surely create a PC, but I suggest you poke around eBay for a tailcoat ( shaped like a PC only with longer tails) and save yourself some steps. You can make a nice-looking Argyll dress jacket from a tux / dinner jacket, but the fabric is there to make the shorter tails and then you just have to decide what you want the front to look like. The advantage of a tailcoat is that it already looks like you want it to.

Careful shoppers can find tailcoats for about what you are talking- you just have to be careful about fit and condition over the internet.

Good luck