# When was the last time you wore a tuxedo (or for women, the equivalent)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 13, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629 "2010-09-13T17:35:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/41 "2010-09-14T13:38:47Z")
Senior prom, May 2009.
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### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/42 "2010-09-14T13:39:52Z")
A few weeks ago as an usher at my cousin’s wedding. There were 90 people at this affair, and by my count, 13 rental tuxes. Nothing says love like paying $150 to rent an ill-fitting suit for 24 hours so you can roast in the August afternoon sun. (Not to mention that, dammit, tuxedos are evening wear. If we’re going to wear these ridiculous outfits, let’s at least do it right. Not that I’d look any less silly in a morning coat.)
If you ask me, the practice of giving the groom his tux free if his groomsmen all rent theirs should be outlawed.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/43 "2010-09-14T13:43:40Z")
I wear mine about twice a year for formal events, the last time at a black tie do at Christchurch College last December.
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### Author:  [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/44 "2010-09-14T13:51:29Z")
> [@jjimm](#):
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> I wear mine about twice a year for formal events, the last time at a black tie do at Christchurch College last December.
Ah, Christchurch, the cream of Oxford. Rich, thick and full of clots.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/45 "2010-09-14T14:06:21Z")
1. I was best man, so I had to.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/46 "2010-09-14T14:15:46Z")
Persephone’s Masquerade in DC in the spring. One of the few occasions each year for really putting on the dog. My GF and I got dolled up to the max. She wore a shot-silk gray/brown full-skirted party dress with maximum cleavage. I wore a long, slinky, skintight black long-sleeved dress with a sheer panel in front and slit all the way up one thigh, with black lace tights and a black lace scarf. While getting ready to go out we listened to Taco’s rendition of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” (a song with remarkable rhythmic patterns, if you listen closely).
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/47 "2010-09-14T14:27:38Z")
> [@villa](#):
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> > [@jjimm](#):
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> > I wear mine about twice a year for formal events, the last time at a black tie do at Christchurch College last December.
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> Ah, Christchurch, the cream of Oxford. Rich, thick and full of clots.
Thought that was all of Oxford.
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### Author:  [@Liki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liki)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/48 "2010-09-14T14:34:54Z")
I think my aunt’s wedding in ca 1988 was a smoking event, I believe I wore a peach coloured satin dress (I was 8 at the time so my memory is bit hazy).
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### Author:  [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/49 "2010-09-14T15:40:08Z")
About three weeks ago, to a cocktail party.
And I wore tails about two weeks ago, to a formal academic dinner.
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### Author:  [@History\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Geek)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/50 "2010-09-14T15:48:28Z")
Last wore a tux at my wedding, 9 years ago.
Not sure if I’m going to do that the second time. It was sort of a pain in the ass.
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/51 "2010-09-14T16:07:07Z")
Performer here - it’s my working uniform.
Black tie - July 24th, 2010
White tie & tails- Feb. 14th, 2010
It actually ticks me off when I’m supposed to give a concert in something other than tux or tails - I paid good money for them, and when I have to go out and buy something to suit someone else’s idea of Funky Formal, well, let’s just say it grates.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/52 "2010-09-14T16:08:43Z")
Last and only - Senior Prom, 1990.
Joe
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### Author:  [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/53 "2010-09-14T16:21:00Z")
I typically wear my tux at least twice a month. I am a Freemason, and since we don’t have uniforms per se, we go black tie.
If you wear one more than once a year you should really just buy one. Most rental places trun over their inventory and you can pick up an almost new tux for less then the cost of a decent suit.
You’d be surprised how often you wear it, even as a goof to an informal event! 🆒
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/54 "2010-09-14T16:41:13Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> > [@villa](#):
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> > Ah, Christchurch, the cream of Oxford. Rich, thick and full of clots.
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> Thought that was all of Oxford.
[Ooh no](http://idler.co.uk/crap-towns/blackbird-leys/).
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/55 "2010-09-14T16:46:45Z")
My brother rented tuxedos for me and his other groomsmen when he got married last year.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/56 "2010-09-14T20:19:30Z")
Suits and dresses not infrequently, but I haven’t been tux-level formal since… May of 2005. Floor-length black strapless dress.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/57 "2010-09-15T06:53:14Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> Suits and dresses not infrequently, but I haven’t been tux-level formal since… May of 2005. Floor-length black strapless dress.
Cool, that’s my answer as well. I haven’t been a music major since then, and the choirs I’ve been in since are not quite as formal dress, requiring at most a suit or even a special vest.
Also, I feel bad, but my only tux is the one I got from high school and forgot to return.
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### Author:  [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/58 "2010-09-15T08:18:00Z")
March this year for a ball in Ankara, Turkey.
Foreign Serivce Officer, so I own one, but won’t have an ocassion to wear it again for a year, so may sell it.
Any offers? 42R, 34-36x30.
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### Author:  [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/59 "2010-09-15T10:58:25Z")
My brother’s wedding, eleven years ago.
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### Author:  [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-wore-a-tuxedo-or-for-women-the-equivalent/553629/60 "2010-09-15T11:01:41Z")
Why the fear of smokings, btw? Besides the vest/cummerbund and french cuffs, it’s hardly more trouble than an ordinary suit. I like wearing french cuffs and a vest to a suit anyway, so it’s pretty much even for me.
And I look damned dapper in a smoking.
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