Weet iemand een plek waar ik een smokingshirt kan scoren met witte manchetten en front, maar met bizarre kleuren voor mouwen en rug? Voor feestje: jasje uit strik ontknopen voor het laatste uur. BVDOever
Historical fashion illustrations show that the earliest dinner jackets were designed to mimic their tailed progenitor as closely as possible. This included having the fronts cut to expose much of the waistcoat and shirt bosom when the jacket was worn open. In fact, it was physically impossible to close most of the original models as they were constructed without a button or buttonhole.By the 1910s, the gap between the fronts of unbuttoned jackets was becoming narrower and buttoned fronts were more common, often in the link front style. The closed-jacket option grew increasingly popular until it finally became the norm in the 1930s. Around this time etiquette books, which had originally not delved into this level of eveningwear detail, began to specifically advise that jackets be buttoned. For example, the 1922 and 1937 editions of Emily Post’s Etiquette compared the dinner jacket to the tailcoat by stating that the former is “held closed in front by one button“. Similarly, 1937’s The New Etiquette dictated that “unlike the formal evening coat, which hangs open, the dinner coat is buttoned at the waistline.”
