"If I were wearing a tuxedo I'd want to wear it with satin Converse sneakers. I'd want my tuxedo to be shrunken and ill-fitting, so I'd look like one of the John Holmstrom cartoons from Punk magazine."
--Marc Jacobs
"It's a style that sees ebbs and flows in popularity but hasn't really completely fallen out of favor since Yves Saint Laurent introduced Le Smoking in 1966.
Saint Laurent's tuxedo look Le Smoking was an extension of the revolution he'd started a few years earlier by pushing pants for women, says Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.
'YSL helped dress women for the daytime in a much more masculinized style - to confront men as equals at work,' she says.
In the 1970s, it was the Studio 54 glitterati, women such as Bianca Jagger, who would dare wear a tuxedo, observes Avril Graham, executive editor of Harper's Bazaar, but it has become a more acceptable form of cocktail and eveningwear for all women in all parts of the country.
Still, she says, women should make an effort to both feminize their outfit and to make it glamorous."
Link: DenverPost.com - Try a tux for dressing to the nines.
Via: Ghost of a flea.
Kate Moss in top hat, above.
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