http://theenglishmanner.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/black-tie-colour/ Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://theenglishmanner.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/black-tie-colour/#comment-4 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:08:07 +0000 http://theenglishmanner.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-4 I must confess that as a young man in the states I broke with tradition from time to time. The most aggregious time I suppose was when I wore a white jacket, blue dress shirt, black bow tie and red Lily Pulitzer trousers. I chose to wear this as an escort to one of ‘the’ private debutante parties of the season. I later married the young lady whom I escorted. On another occasion, the airlines snookered me and I wound up wearing jeans, a white shirt, black bow tie, back cowboy boots and a dinner jacket to a wedding rehearsal dinner in Hilton Head. The guests loved it and actually thought I’d done it on purpose. Luckily for me I had carried my dinner jacket on board and happened to have a white shirt (button down) and bow tie in my brief case (how dated is that?). As John Robertson aptly states, you simply need style. As illustrated above, style can translate into many other definitions. Keep up the column, William. I enjoy it! EG

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