dinner jacket

Example Sentences

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In a small room inside an anonymous industrial block, an old man with a bushy white beard is being fitted with a dinner jacket, ready for the red carpet at the Bafta Awards.

From BBC

“I designed and had all of the suits custom made,” said Mr. Wood, who dressed his seven groomsman in white silk shirts and matching white dinner jackets and black pants.

From New York Times

Phoenix’s pledge raises the question of what usually happens to post-red carpet dinner jackets.

From The Guardian

When he is running smoothly, it looks as if his thumbs are brushing lint from the lapels of his dinner jacket.

From The New Yorker

I know, for example, that contrary to what we see on Fellowes’ screen, non-royal butlers did not wear white waistcoats and that waiters did not wear dinner jackets at all.

From The Guardian