I donât think itâs accidental that the English Cut suit seems to be worn by Mr Bond. ;->
And, though not shown on the infographic, donât forget suits with double-breasted jackets, which have been in style for decades: here are examples from the 1920s to the 1970s.
After the â70s, that style faded away until it made a return in the mid-2010s when IIRC âKingsmanâ caused a real-world uptick in suits for everyday wear.
Also NB that the Tuxedo drawing doesnât actually show a Tuxedo, unless itâs an American terminology with which Iâm not familiar. Thatâs a tailcoat, which has tails, is a coat and is worn with white tie.
A Tuxedo (over here, a dinner-jacket) is in the next panel, Black vs White Tie, and doesnât have tails, is a jacket and is worn with black tie.
Wearing the wrong thing can lead to confusion, whether accidental or snarkily deliberate.
(The link to YouTube keeps dropping off this post. If it goes away again, the clip is here. A longer version with a fuller development of whatâs going on, is here.)
Interesting side-note, the tuxedo / dinner-jacket was a development of the old smoking jacket, and its name in many Continental European languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish - is still âder / le / lo / el smokingââŚ
âDownton Abbeyâ and âJeeves and Woosterâ are good sources of info for how these looked when worn regularly at their set times of day, rather than just on special occasions as nowadays.
Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster gets excellent mileage from his tailoring, wearing it properly as clothing not costume, and looks at ease in formal attire even when his only (IIRC) white-tie appearance is in the dock of a magistrateâs court.
Even so, he seems much more comfortable (and hangover-free, mostly) in everyday suits which, though somewhat dated in details, would still look good today.
