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A dinner jacket or tuxedo (American English, also colloquially known as “tux”), dinner suit, or DJ is a formal evening suit distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain facings on the jacket's lapels and buttons and a similar stripe along the outseam of the trousers. The suit is typically black or midnight blue and commonly worn with a formal shirt, shoes and other accessories, most traditionally in the form prescribed by the black tie dress code.〔''Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition'', Stuart Berg Flexner and Lenore Crary Hauck, editors, Random House, New York (1993).〕 In Britain a tuxedo is a white dinner jacket. ==Etymology== ''Dinner jacket'' in the context of menswear first appeared in England around 1887〔”Dinner-jackets have for some years been worn in country houses when the family are en famille” ''Huddersfield Chronicle'', September 20, 1887 quoting ''Vanity Fair''〕 and in the US around 1889.〔”Fastidious Englishmen don’t seem to be able to get along without a dinner-jacket” ''The Inter Ocean'', October 8, 1889〕 In the 1960s it became associated in North America with white or coloured jackets specifically.〔The Black Tie Guide original research.〕 ''Tuxedo'' in the context of menswear originated in the US around 1888.〔"The Tuxedo coat has become popular with a great many men who regard its demi train as a happy medium between a swallow-tail and a cutaway.” ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', August 19, 1888〕 It was named after Tuxedo Park, a Hudson Valley enclave for New York’s social elite where it was often seen in its early years. The term was capitalized until the 1930s and at first referred only to the jacket. When the jacket was later paired with its own unique trousers and accessories in the 1900s the term began to be associated with the entire suit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tux Britannia )〕 In French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Russian and other European languages the jacket is called a ''smoking'' and in Spanish it is an ''esmoquin''. This name is in reference to the jacket’s early similarity to Victorian smoking jackets. The suit with accompanying accessories is sometimes nicknamed a ''penguin suit'' given its resemblance to the bird's black body and white chest. Other slang terms include ''monkey suit'' and, since 1918, ''soup and fish''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「tuxedo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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