# Men: How many times have you worn a tux?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 10, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514 "2014-06-10T23:49:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/1 "2014-06-10T23:49:23Z")
Poll coming.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/2 "2014-06-10T23:51:46Z")
Oh me? I’ve worn a tux on four occasions: Two black-tie banquets, and two weddings (one of which was mine).
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### Author:  [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/3 "2014-06-10T23:53:31Z")
I bought my own if that tells you anything.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/4 "2014-06-11T00:04:10Z")
two times, that I recall. My high school prom and my second marriage. Both were disasters.
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/5 "2014-06-11T00:09:32Z")
Is this a matter of opinion?
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/6 "2014-06-11T00:12:23Z")
Three. My senior prom, another prom a girl asked me to, and my sister’s wedding (when I was a member of the wedding party).
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/7 "2014-06-11T00:19:06Z")
> [@njtt](#):
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> Is this a matter of opinion?
It’s a poll, and this is the forum for polling.
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### Author:  [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/8 "2014-06-11T00:23:43Z")
Never. I can recall one occasion when I was supposed to wear one, turned up in a regular suit and wasn’t turned away.
That was a bit rude of me, violating the dress code and all. These days I’m not so young and stupid , and would simply decline the invitation altogether.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/9 "2014-06-11T00:27:15Z")
Buncha weddings, around 7 or 8. Other than that, never.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/10 "2014-06-11T00:29:53Z")
About seven or eight times, maybe.
One notable occasion: I was the best man at my friend’s wedding in Houston, then had to go right from the all-night part to the airport in the morning to go home. When I arrived in New York, I went to some art exhibit with my uncle, and I was still wearing the tux. My uncle joked, “If you’re here for the Million Man March, sorry, but you missed it…it was a month ago!”. (Indeed, that event had taken place about a month previously).
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/11 "2014-06-11T00:41:58Z")
Just once, to my wedding.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/12 "2014-06-11T00:57:13Z")
I’m not sure. More than 25, but probably less than 50.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/13 "2014-06-11T01:00:14Z")
The standard performance dress (for men) in my choir is black tie/dinner suit. As a quick estimate, I’d have worn a dinner suit on approximately 800 occasions.
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/14 "2014-06-11T01:02:32Z")
Never.
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/15 "2014-06-11T01:10:05Z")
I own 8 suits of formal wear, dinner jackets, white tie & tails, kilts, victorean, top hat, 2 opera capes (count 'em two!) and I could tie a bow tie!
I loved dressing up.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/16 "2014-06-11T01:19:34Z")
Not once. But I don’t vote in public polls.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/17 "2014-06-11T01:20:26Z")
My chorus gives at least 3 concerts a year, with 2-3 performances for each concert. We always wear tuxes for our December holiday concert, sometimes for the others. Also some other events throughout the year. I joined the chorus in 1995. That puts me over 50, although in haste I clicked on 21-50.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/18 "2014-06-11T01:36:59Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> That puts me over 50, although in haste I clicked on 21-50.
That’s _part_ of why I don’t vote even in noncontroversial polls if they’re public. I too on occasion have clicked on a wrong choice. No need to have that hanging out there giving the wrong impression.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/19 "2014-06-11T01:39:52Z")
I wore one for a friend’s wedding. I wore a suit to my own wedding.
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### Author:  [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-many-times-have-you-worn-a-tux/690514/20 "2014-06-11T04:14:56Z")
I answered “21-50”, but on reflection I probably should have said “50+”.
I’ve been to a handful of proms and weddings, but I also play tuba in a number of amateur groups for which the typical performance attire is a tuxedo. I wear a tux more frequently than I do a suit.
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