Black Tie Events
Dress in “Black Tie” or “White Tie” and you’re ready for good company, excellent food and fine wine.
Evening wear for men is often referred to as Black Tie or a DJ, whereas “White Tie” is an evening tailcoat with white Marcella waistcoat, shirt and bow tie.
We have evening wear hire to suit every occasion. For a black tie dinners you will need:
- A pleated front dinner shirt with either a wing collar or standard collar and bow tie. It doesn’t necessarily have to be black bow tie and depends on how formal the function and your personal persona.
- A dinner jacket that is either single breasted, double breasted or shawl which has rounded lapels.
- Or a white tuxedo, a white jacket, which is in fact off white or cream is always worn with black dress trousers that have a satin stripe running down the seam of each leg.
- Or a Nehru jacket, an elegant longer jacket style with a stand-up collar.
Optional accessories might include a pocket handkerchief and a cummerbund help make even more of an impression. We also hire formal black Oxford shoes and cuff links. Hats, however, should not be worn if the invitation says ‘Black Tie.’ A black top hat and silver tipped ebony cane can be worn if your invitation says “White Tie”, all available to hire.
For black tie hire and dinner jacket hire in Hampshire (Hants), Surrey and Berkshire, talk to Bartlett & Butcher. We have more than 50 years’ experience in dressing clients correctly for functions at which they need to make the right impression.
The Bartlett & Butcher difference
Because our hire wear garments are uniquely coded our customers will, whenever possible, be wearing the same garments on the day of the function that they tried on when being fitted.
Unless advised all our garments are in stock and impeccably cleaned and pressed in our own on-site dry-cleaning plant and tailored to fit in our in-house workrooms.
Our complete control at every stage enables us to fulfil the trust our customers have grown accustom for half a century.
