A dinner jacket and a tuxedo jacket seem similar because they are the same thing. These two pieces have different names in different parts of the world, but their origins and design are the same.

Known as a dinner suit, in 1929 founding Tuxedo Club member Grenville Kane recounted that another member, New York banker James Brown Potter, began wearing a short jacket in place of a tailcoat ...

Although black tuxedos have a contrasting silk lapel instead of the self-facing lapel, such trim is far too show biz flashy on a white dinner jacket and is never used.

The dinner jacket—or tuxedo, as it’s less elegantly referred to in the United States, or smoking (as in le smoking), as it’s wonderfully called in some parts of Europe—has been around ...

On this momentous day in 1886 the dinner jacket made its debut in the US when New York millionaire James Potter donned the suit for an outing at the Tuxedo Park Club.

After World War I, when "informal" dinner jackets and black-tie gained acceptance, white-tie fell to the wayside. The difference between black- and white-tie is simple.