Marlene Dietrich in a tuxedo was considered very erotic.

Criswell was flamboyant with spit curled hair, a stentorian style of speaking, and a sequined tuxedo.

When the dinner jacket ( tuxedo in American English ) first came into fashion in the Victorian era, it was used as a less formal alternative for the tailcoat which men of the upper classes wore every evening.

After World War I, the tuxedo became de facto evening wear, while the evening tailcoat was limited to extremely formal or ceremonial occasions.

Prior to the late 1930s, black tie was even discouraged as too informal for evening weddings, with Amy Vanderbilt arguing that " no man should ever be caught in a church in a tuxedo.

His trademark attire was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo.

Socks was a bicolor cat with low grade spotting, or tuxedo cat.

In the United Kingdom, the tuxedo cat is sometimes known as the " Jellicle cat ", after the fictional tribe of black and white cats described by T. S. Eliot in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was first published in 1939.

He quipped to Carson, " Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

This name would result in a new look ( Double-O Duck was to wear a white tuxedo and black domino mask ).

Long's body was dressed in a tuxedo and his open copper-lined casket was placed in the State Capitol rotunda.

The band was notable for wearing pink tuxedo jackets.

In mid-decade, the dinner jacket or tuxedo, was used in more relaxed formal occasions.

I was a bum .” Burke recalled: " People laughed at me because I still had my gold tuxedo pants on, and my patent leather shoes, and my beautiful ruffled shirt.

Every eighteen months, a tuxedo banquet was held in Washington DC, for the participating artists of that period.

Her graduation project was to make a tuxedo for Louis.

Some speculated that he would wear it to the official inauguration, where he actually dressed in a white collared dress shirt without a necktie ( itself unheard of in Latin America in modern times for a head of state at their own inauguration ) and a black suit jacket that was not a part of a conventional suit or tuxedo.

Hank had his 1970s-era hair cut at a salon ; had his long fingernails and toenails chiseled off during a manicure ; received an eye exam and new glasses ; got fitted for a tuxedo ; and was supposed to have his teeth cleaned at the dentist office, but was unable to do so because he was too intoxicated.

Peter Brook directed a French language production in the sixties in which Timon was portrayed as an innocent idealist in a white tuxedo, ripped and dishevelled in the second part.

The Austrian was forced to attend the dinner wearing a tuxedo with running shoes.

This new Todd was dressed in a tuxedo and packaged in a large giftset of six dolls that included Midge as the bride, Alan as the groom, Barbie as the maid of honor, Ken as the best man, Todd as the ring bearer, and a doll named Kelly as the flower girl.

** Black tie (" dinner jacket " in the UK ; often referred to as a " tuxedo " in the US ; traditionally appropriate only for use after 6: 00 p. m., but also seen in daytime, especially in the United States )

Most tuxedo cats are also black mask cats, a common name for felines who, due to their facial coloration, look as if they are wearing a black mask over their eyes, and often over their entire head.

" He is also credited with having introduced the tuxedo suit for women, became the first designer to use ethnic models in his runway shows, and referenced non-European cultures in his work.

Meanwhile Jimmy is ready to give up and go back to his life as a taxi driver, but while packing his belongings he discovers that Devlin had ordered a second tuxedo for Jimmy himself, believing that Jimmy could also be a great agent.

In French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian and also other European languages, the term smoking indicates a tuxedo.

He also had a short feud with Mr. Fuji, and wrestled him in a series of tuxedo matches in late-1986.

The first such product marketed by Valenti to achieve multi-million dollar sales was also the first product he and Becher ever marketed: The Miracle Painter (" Why is this man painting his ceiling in a tuxedo?

He also staged a stereotypical gangland funeral complete with tuxedo clad gunsels and enormous banks of flowers.

It was also once dressed in a tuxedo during a visit by the Three Tenors.

Michael is the no-nonsense, serious but unassuming leader, Steven the loving, near-groom, pecked at by his mother for not wearing a scarf with his tuxedo and Nick is the quiet, introspective man who loves hunting because, " I like the trees ... you know ... the way the trees are ..." The recurring theme of " one shot ", which is how Michael prefers to take down a deer, is introduced.

Esther is devastated when John cannot take her as his date, due to his leaving his tuxedo at the tailor's and being unable to get it back.

In his autobiography, How You Play the Game, Colangelo tells of working after graduating college at the House of Charles, a tuxedo rental shop in Chicago Heights.

Wilson stood at a podium made of cardboard in a tacky tuxedo, with a foam ball attached to a broomstick as a fake microphone, and announced Can't Stop the Music as the first Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture.

Guerrero defeated Rios after arriving at ringside in a 1957 Chevrolet, even wrestling in his tuxedo pants and a bow tie.

Today, The Batt is reserved for students in grades 11 and 12, held at venues such as the Royal York Hotel or Arcadian Court, with attire being tuxedo for boys and evening gown or cocktail dress for girls, and music is provided by DJs.

One night after an orchestra concert, still wearing his formal tuxedo, Ponty found himself at a local club with only his violin.

A depressed Cappie finds comfort with Maggie at her house — much to the chagrin of Lucas, who has arrived, in tuxedo, to pick her up for the dance.

On prom night, a disheartened Laney reluctantly dresses up after persuasion by her father Wayne ( Kevin Pollak ) and goes to the dance with Dean when he shows up at her house in a tuxedo to invite her as his prom date.

After escaping he encounters human society at a shopping mall, buys a tuxedo, goes on a date with a woman who thinks he is Jeff, reducing her to an emotional wreck, and then loses his head ( literally ) over Frankie's best friend Trish ( Glenne Headly ) who has taken refuge in Frankie's apartment after walking out on her husband.

According to Boris Bazarov, Duggan told his Soviet handlers: " The only thing which kept him at his hateful job in the State Department where he did not get out of his tuxedo for two weeks, every night attending a reception, was the idea of being useful for our cause.

While it has been reported that Lorillard's son, Griswold Lorillard, introduced the then-unnamed tuxedo to the United States in 1886 at the Tuxedo Club's Autumn Ball, this is now known to be incorrect.

The tuxedo was introduced by New York millionaire James Potter at the club's first Autumn ball in 1886 after a trip to England.

Here, he or she is a very minor character, appearing only at Olaf's dinner party and at the wedding scene, where he or she wears half of a bridesmaid gown sewn to half of a tuxedo.