Designers are beginning to pay more attention to men, Riddell says ... This is a wool tuxedo with a single-button gray jacket and tails, peak lapel, striped gray pant, gray vest and striped ...

2011 marks an important anniversary for the tuxedo, a revolutionary style that modernized formal wear by inspiring men to replace traditional tailcoats with more casual shortened dinner jackets.

Cundey said the dinner jacket — or the tuxedo — first came about when Edward VII, later the king of the United Kingdom, decided in 1865 he was "tired of wearing tails at dinner by himself." ...