literally another aussie in london

bow ties

Of recent times I have been invited to a couple of dinners. One was my awards dinner, which I will try and fill you in on at another time, and the other is the Wisden dinner.

For the awards dinner the dress code was lounge suits.  In Australia you can wear a suit to just about anything and it won’t be a problem.

But for the Wisden dinner I have to wear black tie.

Now after a great deal of research I realised there is no way around black tie. You just have to wear a fucking bow tie and stupid suit. Thongs/jandals/flipflops are also not permitted.

I’ve never worn a bow tie before, and I’ve never been to anything that black tie was even mentioned.

When I talked to one of my English friends, he said he had a tux in his closet, I can’t say any of my Australian friends ever owned one, I doubt many of them have ever worn one.

It is things like cufflinks and tuxedos that show me the difference between Australia and England.

Why the hell would anyone need a Tuxedo? Surely a suit does the same thing, it says, “hey, I have enough money to have a suit, I aint no bum.”

A tuxedo is a way of saying, “hey, I don’t just have money, I can afford to burn some on this stuffy assed fruit suit”.

I will get a tux though, just so I can go to these toffy assed parties and then bag them to you guys.

March 12, 2010 Posted by Jrod | living in london | tuxedos | 7 Comments