Advice: What to tell my girlfriend - Page 6

Originally Posted by cosmic 

Example - the cummerbund. Its function is not to be seen, but simply to cover the part beneath the jacket button, so that you don't get an unsightly little white strip of shirt showing through. Since your jacket should be buttoned up the whole time you are wearing it, it will cover almost all of the cummberbund. So, the cummerbund, if chosen in the correct colour (i.e. black) is basically invisible. The ONLY time it is seen is when, if you were not wearing one (and had no waistcoat instead), the shirt front bottom would be showing - which looks a lot uglier than a patch of black cummerbund.

Next: bow tie vs normal tie. The reason a bow tie is worn, is not to look like a penguin or a 60 something WASP Republican, but to avoid having a tie dropping into your dinner. It is, after all, called a DINNER SUIT - you will be eating/drinking several courses at a table for 2+ hours, the last thing you want is a waist-length tie flopping around in the gravy or red wine and getting it and your white shirt stained. Ties also tend to get out of place when dancing, carousing, and so on. Plus, a BLACK bow tie with a dinner suit, looks sharp (google some pics of Connery/007 and show her).

Originally Posted by EBugatti 

Women get their ideas on fashion from magazines, celebrities, what's "in" at the moment, what the "cool kids" are wearing etc. this is completely different from men. That's why she is pushing the new awful "trendy" looks.