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Dinner Jacket / Tuxedo requirement

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actually, on the topic of clothes, can I just ask about the subfusc? are there any specific white shirts or black skirts I should be buying? ie should the white shirts have long sleeves, does it matter if its buttoned or zipped? should it be a straight forward black skirt with no frills etc or does that not matter? and also court shoes or any black shoes? Any help with that would be really useful! Thank you :smile:

Reply 21

Elles

this thread has lots of sub fusc discussion, so might be handy! complete with pic of me from hte neck down on matriculation day.. :p:

as far as i've read there aren't official restrictions on the type of blouse, skirt or shoes other than colour.

BUT for matric i played safe - plain long sleeved, button up school type blouse (veery cheap w/ the back to school ranges!), plain A line below knee skirt & court shoes with tiny buckle. oh & don't forget the regulation dark stockings.. :cool:

come exam time - late june, with 7 consecutive AM/PM exams this loosened up to lightweight cotton skirt with lace inset & a variety of blouses - 3/4 sleeved, linen, cotton, button up neck, sailor type open neck, clasps/hook/eye, ruffles. & i wasn't shouted at or anything. people wearing fishnets/fancy tights on the otherhand were though.

& yay for shopping trips.

Reply 22

whauden

I detest 'dress pants', as our Tuxedo-ed cousins tend to call them so was intending to just get a nice DJ with matching black trousers - presume this is ok?

Plus - will there be any fancy balls in fresher's week - I love getting dressed up too!

Reply 23

LubyLoo

BabyMan

To keep you up to date, I bought a dinner suit yesterday. Let's hope it gets plenty of use.

I can't believe you didn't buy it from me! :p:

Reply 24

BabyMan

whauden

I detest 'dress pants', as our Tuxedo-ed cousins tend to call them so was intending to just get a nice DJ with matching black trousers - presume this is ok?

Tradition dictates that, for black tie, the trousers have a single satin band running down each leg. If you just have plain black trousers, I hardly expect anyone will notice the difference.

smiley_me

I can't believe you didn't buy it from me! :p:

Sorry, found one with a free shirt and tie elsewhere.

Reply 25

LubyLoo

BabyMan

Sorry, found one with a free shirt and tie elsewhere.

Hehe, fair enough. :smile:

Reply 26

Bezza

BabyMan

Tradition dictates that, for black tie, the trousers have a single satin band running down each leg. If you just have plain black trousers, I hardly expect anyone will notice the difference.

...and white tie should have 2 stripes, though as you say, it's not going to make any difference if you have the "wrong" number of stripes on your trousers!!

Reply 27

Drogue

whauden

I detest 'dress pants', as our Tuxedo-ed cousins tend to call them so was intending to just get a nice DJ with matching black trousers - presume this is ok?
That would be fine in itself, but remember it's almost impossible to get a black jacket and black trousers bought seperately to match. There are many shades of black, and they class nastily if they don't go. I've tried when looking for a suit and failed - it's just easier to get it all together.

First fancy ball will be the Union's, probably in 6th week of Michaelmus (the first term). It's only 20 quid a ticket or so and usually well worth it.

Reply 28

oxymoron

Drogue

First fancy ball will be the Union's, probably in 6th week of Michaelmus (the first term). It's only 20 quid a ticket or so and usually well worth it.

Maybe ... but I seem to remember there were college balls in 5th week of Mich last year ... either Merton or Catz I think? I don't know when college balls are this year though.

Reply 29

Bezza

oxymoron

Maybe ... but I seem to remember there were college balls in 5th week of Mich last year ... either Merton or Catz I think? I don't know when college balls are this year though.

merton had a ball in michaelmas - not sure which week though

Reply 30

oxymoron

Bezza

merton had a ball in michaelmas - not sure which week though

It was St Catz ... Saturday of 5th.

Reply 31

H&E

Merton had one too in MT. Shiny went, and moaned at some length about how **** it was.

Reply 32

oxymoron

Yes ... that was Saturday of 7th. It wasn't that bad, but then it was only the 2nd ball I'd been to so didn't really know what to expect.

Reply 33

swami

so let me get this straight, you have to a buy a dark suit for matric and then on top of that a tux for dinners, cheeky bastards - do they think im made out of money. Cant you just wear your tux to the matric? if not then they should be handing out suit vouchers during freshers week.

Reply 34

Narcissus

No, you'd look a little silly - a dinner suit is all dressy :frown:

If you must, I'd do it the other way round...

Reply 35

RxB

You know, you don't have to go to dinners...

Reply 36

me_and

Okay, I have a fitted DJ that I was going to wear -- is that not going to be suitable then? I don't want to have to fork out for another jacket!

Reply 37

Drogue

For Sub Fusc? It's doable, but you'll stand out. To be honest, all you need sub fusc for are matric, exams and graduation. You could borrow a parents jacket for that, if you only had a DJ. Balls and dinners are more often than sub fusc required events.

Reply 38

swami

Its all a bit silly to me but hey ho, i applied there so i guess i have to put up with it. On the issue of balls and dinners, can you wear traditonal dress, ie a sherwani for me (being asian) or will they have a problem with that as well?

Reply 39

Willa

swami

this isn't an oxford invented tradition, it's just the way society functions. Most adults will have a suit, and rent DJ's when required. But since you're gonna be using it a lot, you might as well buy one.

edit: sorry i didnt read the whole thread correctly, i thought you were enquiring about DJ's for balls and dinners, which is the normal dress code for such affairs. never mind.

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