Tee Apparel
The Midnight Dinner Suit
For: Black tie / gala / awards dinner
Midnight blue reads blacker than black under photographers' lights. If you own one Western evening piece, this is the one worth spending on — it will outlive three trend cycles.
- Colour
- Midnight blue
- Cloth
- Midnight barathea with a silk-faced peak lapel
- Cut
- Jacket to mid-seat
- Detail
- Silk-faced peak lapel, braid stripe
Indicative UK market range: £900–£1,600
On your frame
- Broad / muscular — One button, lower gorge, and no shoulder padding — otherwise the front strains.
- Tall and lean — Peak lapel and a slightly longer skirt on the jacket; a short jacket exaggerates the leg.
- Compact — Medium lapel width, high trouser rise, no break over the shoe.
- Fuller figure — Shawl collar, single button, side adjusters instead of a belt or braces.
What to do next
01 — The introduction
If this is the shape you want, tell me the occasion and date and I will point you at the right house for it.
Tell me the occasion, the date and your budget bracket. Within 24 hours you get back: two or three houses I would actually approach and why those and not others, the alterations to insist on for your build, a realistic timeline for your date, and a short written brief you can hand to the tailor at the first fitting.
- No fee, no commission, nothing sold here.
- If nobody I trust fits your date or budget, I say so.
- Read by me, answered by me.
02 — If the date is further off