In 2024, plenty of purists will insist, with much tsk-tsking, that the rules of black tie attire have changed. They're wrong—or, at least, not entirely right. How people dress in response to a black tie invitation might have changed, but the rules themselves remain largely immovable. “If you get an invite to something that says ‘black tie’, you’re under pretty strict orders to wear a tuxedo and a bow tie,” says Jake Mueser, the founder of New York City-based J. Mueser Bespoke. “It doesn’t mean... Read this story
