Young men’s fashion seems to come out with an iconic piece of clothing that changes things but usually sticks around for a few years. A new item that has not only come back from the dead but came back transformed are mens dinner jackets. Mens dinner jackets when you first think of them are really nothing more than your tried and true regular style tuxedo jacket. The classic type that gentlemen used to wear to proper dinner events a hundred years ago.
Mens Dinner Jackets are not just Black.
These jackets are primarily where the term “black tie event” came from. Proper gentlemen would wear these standard style tuxedo jackets to formal dinner parties that often times would be had over some land baron’s palatial estate. The type of estate like you might see in the show “Downton Abbey”. All the men would wear these enchanting black with black satin lapel jackets to the formal dinner and exchange their stories having a good time. A funny thing happened. Times changed.
They come in fashion colors now.
Mens dinner jackets have made a huge comeback but guess what. They don’t look like they are made for wearing to formal dinners anymore. At least not a stuffy upper crust land Barron’s estate dinner. These new generation style dinner jackets are different. Instead of your basic black jacket. These jackets come in all sorts of colors and fancy fabric styles.
Italian designers are always creating new styles.
Designers in Italy took the tried and true dinner jacket and added flair to them. Like any young designer fresh out of fashion school, there always seems to be that, fresh minds create something new. The latest designers have come up with different styles unlike anything seen before. Unique pattern fabrics and colors have taken hold.
On many of the new generation of mens dinner jackets, you can only notice one thing that is similar to the conventional style dinner jacket. The one thing is, that they will usually but not always have the black satin lapels. This always announces that this is a dinner jacket and not just any old jacket or blazer. The jacket will have the same satin covered buttons on the body front as well as the sleeves.
You will now find fancy fabrics used.
The differences will be that there is very strong chance that you see some fine fancy pattern woven fabric on the body that may be very similar to neck tie material. The fancy pattern and colors employed contrast nicely with the black satin lapels of the jacket. Another thing that you will see on these new generation of mens dinner jackets is that they are often well tailored and some are even slim fit which is all the rage in the young men’s fashion world. These tighter fitting dinner jackets are really anything but stuffy like the dinner jackets of yore. These are all about style and attitude.
Young men have recently adopted the dinner jacket.
If you like to people watch, you will notice that fashion minded young men have adopted the fancy pattern version of mens dinner jackets. You will see them wearing the most unique styles to the Prom in the Spring and Homecomings during the Fall. Men who are of bar fly age will also wear these head turning mens dinner jackets as modern blazers to the club hooked up with jeans. Just walk into any urban night club on a Friday night and you will see more than a couple guys wearing fancy paisley dinner jackets. All it takes is the right young Celebrity to wear one and a trend is born.