BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 10:04 PM

Yeah, I thought so too. The one in the upper left.

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: bobad
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 10:10 PM

Yeah but do the shoes go with the skirt ?

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 10:58 PM

You guys are electing to make MMario dress up like an evzone???? This is going too far!


A

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 05 - 09:11 AM

No, like a Greek.

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Jul 05 - 06:21 PM

For some reason I'm hearing ZZ Top....Every girls crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man!

As for the girls, are you kidding me? You in a tux AND singing? They are going to be lining up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MmmmmmHmmmmmmm!

:) Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 08:52 AM

Big men with beards look very elegant in a tux. I still want pictures.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: GUEST,Curious
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 04:17 PM

I guess the ladies will want to know your shoe size too. Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink - Know what I mean ?

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 04:25 PM

well, I'll tell you curious - they wouldn't have to guess my shoe size if I had agreed to wear my ren-garb to the wedding.

I don't believe the BS you ladies are slinging *grin* But feel free to keep trying to re-assure me.

leenia - How can one possibly be comfortable in a shirt, vest, and suitcoat - even before you add the tie? that's a layer more then I normally wear OUTSIDE!

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 04:45 PM

*looking over at WYSIWYG*

HMPH...he thinks we are BSing him!!!!!!!!!


Mmario....are we gonna have to tie you up and beat some sense into you at the MudGathering? Hmmmmmm? WYSIWYG tells me there is a pole in the stairwell...a perfect little dungeon....

*wink*

LOL

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 04:45 PM

Seriously, I would vote for one that Rapaire posted (boink!). That's downright elegant, and it avoids the penguin look!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 05:01 PM

And a knife in your sock gives it a renfaire aire.

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: Homeless
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 06:41 PM

Y'know MMario, if I were you, I'd be seriously considering wearing a tux to the FSGW this year.

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: M.Ted
Date: 20 Jul 05 - 09:00 PM

My advice is to buy a tux on the internet--there are a bunch of places, Discount Tuxedos , Cheap Tux, Fine Tuxedos, etc and you will be amazed to find that you can get one for about the same, or even *cheaper*than renting--the tux I got was a Neil Allyn, which is what you get when you rent, and came with a shirt, cummerbund, tie, studs, -- but you can get anything, including the Italian designer numbers, for much, much less than you would believe- they fit me over the phone(which, bizarre as it seems, was perfect--they need only sleeve length, chest size, and waist--you can get the pants finished at a dry cleaners for five or ten bucks.

The places that sell on the net are really uniform dealers, mostly in and around NYC--the jokes about looking like a waiter are true, a tux is really just a waiters black suit, and waiters don't pay men's store prices for them, why should you?

If you wonder why should you own rather than rent(other than that you pay the same whether you rent or buy)?Because next time someone wants you in a tux, you'll have one. The pants come with these little adjustment tabs so that they fit as well next year as this year--

When you have a tux you use it--I've MC'd several special events in it, and wore it when I was an extra in a movie--so the investment has been payed back several times over already, and it still looks great!

If it helps you any, think of it as a costume--

Subject: RE: BS: AAAARGH! I gotta wear a tux!
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 05:54 AM

The dress shoes point is an interesting one. I own some dress shoes, but cannot for the life of me see what makes them particularly different from other shoes I might wear to the office. I only know they are dress shoes because they were labelled that way when I got them.