White dinner jackets are meant for the summer season (beginning on Memorial Day) or for year-round temperate zones, a climate for which Hollywood in February doesn’t quite qualify. The best ...

Men interpreted the white tie in a number of ways. Though technically it involves a black jacket with tails, Jay Z, for example, chose a white tuxedo jacket, sans tails, by Givenchy.

This client brought his new dinner jacket home with him to his Tuxedo Park neighborhood. Before long, a few of Poole’s other New York clients began sporting their dinner jackets back at home.

Cundey said the dinner jacket — or the tuxedo — first came about when Edward VII, later the king of the United Kingdom, decided in 1865 he was "tired of wearing tails at dinner by himself." ...