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Want to fit in? Wear a tux. Want to hold your head high? Tie a piece of black silk under your Adam's apple. (Clip-ons are permissible -- if not entirely excusable -- only for maitre d's at restaurants that revolve atop the city's tallest building.) Want to -- be honest, now -- leave the party with some new company? Go in grosgrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Tie Still Required | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...There's no way you could get me into a tux," the cabbie replied as he sideswiped two Datsuns and a Honda motorscooter...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Dazed and Confused | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard students who prefer not to shell out substantial amounts of cash to buy a tux turn to Cambridge Formal Wear, at 1902 Massachusetts Ave., where undegrads can rent a tuxedo for $45 or $55 an evening. The rental company currently has an inventory of 400 tuxedos...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Looking Your Best For Harvard's Biggest Ball | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...much does it cost to rent a tux with a striped, crimson cummerbund and bow tie, black shoes, studs, cufflinks and a ruffled formal shirt...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Tuxedo Trauma | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...course. Chevy Chase in his tux intends to perform his Ford-the-Klutz routine of stumbling and bumping, the old Saturday Night Live act that helped catapult him to national notice. "But I've got to be careful," warns Chase. "I've got a couple of squashed disks in my back now, and I can't take falls like I used to." When Ford first called to ask him to join in the presidential hilarity, Chase thought there had been a mistake. "After all, I'd been pretty mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Wit and Wisdom | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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