As owner of the largest bridal store chain in the nation, May Department Stores Co. knows a bit about weddings. So when the St. Louis-based retailer spied the fragmented men’s formalwear market in the ...

The tuxedo —or depending on your geographical position, the dinner suit (Britain) or le smoking (France)—at first feels like ...

How is it that black-tie invitations provoke such a potent mix of apathy and angst in so many men? Despite its royal origins in the late 19th century and glamorous heyday through the ’40s, ’50s and ...

For holiday parties, today’s sophisticated man can take a cue from runways and red carpets by choosing tuxedos for formal occasions or components thereof for more casual events. Fashion designers, ...

Javier Andrade is holding an armful of shirts that are, for lack of a better word, pretty. There are two with ruffles, one bibbed with baby-blue pleats, another in denim with rows of fuzzy and frayed ...

We’ve all seen it — guests on the holiday party circuit, stuffed into spangled frocks that won’t stay in place, an undergirding of Spanx holding in the wobbly bits. Then a glamorous guest sweeps in, ...

The pleated tuxedo shirt has had it rough. Perhaps tarnished by mere association with its flamboyant cousin—the ruffled tux shirts of ‘70s prom nightmares—the formal style has collected dust while men ...

As so many Oscars hopefuls do, it is time to make friends with the tuxedo. Credit... Supported by By Guy Trebay Winners and losers, orgies of gratitude, generous lashings of false humility — these are ...

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