Ivory Shawl Collar Dinner Jacket

About this tuxedo

This ivory tuxedo jacket is the classic dinner jacket. The warm cream-leaning white looks richer than pure white and photographs beautifully under warm light. The shawl lapel is faced in black satin, curving from the collar to the chest for a clean black-and-white contrast. The jacket has a single button set low, two flapped pockets and a fitted cut. It is worn with black trousers with a satin stripe down the side seam, the true evening-wear look. Underneath are a white shirt with a stand collar, a black bow tie with a small dot pattern and a black pocket square folded flat.

Mon Amie designs this suit for the groom at an evening wedding, for outdoor parties in the warm season, for a gala night or a party on a yacht, anywhere you want to stand out among rows of black suits. Keep to the formula of black trousers, polished black shoes, a white shirt and a black bow tie; any additional colour easily upsets this balance.

Light-coloured fabric is very demanding of the cut because every crease shows. For this reason Mon Amie measures and drafts each jacket individually: the tailor takes your shoulder, chest, waist and arm span measurements, advises on the ivory shade that suits your complexion, balances the shawl lapel to your shoulder width, and adjusts over the fittings until the jacket fits cleanly while remaining comfortable when you raise your arms.