Make sure you fasten your shirt cuffs, with either a button or a cufflink, before putting on your jacket. The bottom button of your vest should be left unbuttoned.
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The top button is all you need. The two-button jacket should never have both buttons fastened. The three-button suit comes with a simple rule: “sometimes, always, never.” It means you should sometimes fasten the top button (if you feel like it), always fasten the middle button, and never button the third.
Buttoning Your Vest
Vest or no vest, buttoning the bottom button will make you look like a rube, plain and simple. If you do have a vest on, the bottom button on the vest ought to remain unbuttoned as well.
If you have the traditional one-button jacket; you leave it unbuttoned if you wear it with a waistcoat or a vest, and you button it if you wear it with a cummerbund.
This is important: Leaves the vest unbuttoned. Never button the vest, because that’s a formal move (hence the term “buttoned-up” meaning uptight). It’s summer and you want to keep things loose and relaxed, remember? Keep the vest and shirt in the same tonal family.
The answer goes back to a very fat king: King Edward VII.
As fashion blogs and magazines will tell you, there’s a story that King Edward VII, back when he was the Prince of Wales and suits were becoming in vogue, got too fat for his waistcoat so he stopped buttoning the bottom button to make it fit better.
Some say the bottom button of the waistcoat usually had to be undone in order to be able to rise at all. Others claim the bottom button was left unbuttoned to keep the vest from sliding up the chest.
Nowadays the fashion is for suit jackets and blazers to have two-buttons. However, as the tradition has been to leave the last button undone for such a long time, suits and waistcoats are actually designed for this purpose.
What should you not wear with a tuxedo?
Trousers with braces
In the choice of trousers, wearing trousers that include the application of braces, the belts, as practical, are not suitable for a look as formal as black tie. Choose black or white braces in fabric, rather than in leather, or in any case they should be matching the colour of the tuxedo.
Can you wear a white vest with a tuxedo?
Because wearing a tuxedo with vest is highly formal, the vest color and material should be simple and tasteful. In most cases, it is best to simply match the vest to the dinner jacket in color and material. In some cases, however, it can be acceptable to wear a vest in a subtle, complementary color.
Is a vest part of a tuxedo?
The vest will be made from the same cloth as the tuxedo jacket, and should have buttons covered in the same silk as those on the coat. While vests or cummerbunds may, at first, seem superfluous accessories, these components of the complete tuxedo actually have a purpose, which is, simply, to cover the waist.
Do you tuck in a vest on a tux?
Remember, a vest is meant to be snug, not tight. Once you are comfortable, button all of the buttons, except for the bottom one, which is traditionally left undone. Last but not least, put on your tuxedo jacket.
Because of its origins in traditional eveningwear designs, one-button suit jackets are often cut longer than other types of suits. Keeping the button fastened maintains a balanced proportion. These jackets should ALWAYS be buttoned when standing. Unbutton the jacket when sitting down, so that it doesn’t crease.
Most vests are going to have 5 buttons down the front, but if you’re over 6’2″ or so, or have an otherwise longer torso, I think a 6 button front would be a good option for you. This would keep the buttons from “stretching out”, but then again, that can be a style preference.
Should vest be tight or loose?
“Go for something that has a comfortable fit in the body (you don’t want yours to be too big as it will sag and the excess fabric will cause bunching). A snug fit will look smarter, but you don’t want it to be too tight either. This is a summer staple and you should move freely in it.”
How do you wear a 2022 vest?
Start simple with a colored vest over a white shirt.
White goes with anything, so a simple white T-shirt or long sleeve shirt can be a great starting point for a new vest outfit. Leave your T-shirt untucked and your vest open for a casual vest look. If closing, leave the bottom button undone.
When wearing a waistcoat keep the bottom button undone on the waistcoat. If you wear a jacket over the top, generally no jacket buttons are done up, or the rules above are followed.
Legend goes that Britain’s Edward VII ― a king with several famous appetites ― grew too large for his suit and had to stop using the second button as a result. Not wanting to embarrass him, others followed. The tradition stuck.
How do you properly wear a vest?
How to wear the vest. Excluding exceptions, the vest must always be worn over a shirt with a buttoned collar and under a single-breasted jacket or blazer. It should never be worn under a double-breasted jacket: the neck of the jacket, in fact, must be large enough to allow the waistcoat to be visible.
Should I wear a cummerbund with my tuxedo?
Cummerbunds are a match made in heaven with a tuxedo but they should never be worn with a regular suit. Wearing a waistcoat will defeat the purpose of wearing a cummerbund.
Should I wear studs with my tuxedo?
Except for the fly-front shirt, then, studs aren’t optional. You’re not going to want to wear a shirt with regular buttons as part of the Black Tie or White Tie dress codes. So, you will need a set of studs and, preferably, a set for each dress code.