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It would be a lot easier to press a pleat into your dungarees and slip on your turquoise bolo tie for formal night. The downfall would be lugging around those bulky pointy boots. Probably more convenient to carry on those pretty shiny patent leather shoes to go with the tux.

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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee (Post 1603028)

I guess my husband and I fall into "old school" when it comes to dressing for dinner. We prefer to wear Tux on formal nights and a jacket or suit on less formal nights. We always dine in the dining rooms, not the buffet.

A few years ago we were on a Maiden Voyage cruise starting in the Med. Every night the men dressed in either Tux, dinner jacket or business suits and the ladies in full length gowns or smart cocktail wear.

For us, we enjoy seeing people dressed for dinner. What you prefer to wear on your cruise is up to you and I have absolutely no interest in what other people wish to wear.

By the way, we just came off a cruise and one of the people on board was a very beautiful tall blonde female from Europe, she was covered in tats from top to bottom. She liked to wear the shortest of short shorts with boots to the thigh, with a strappy bra top. She was turned away from the dining room.

Oh the poor thing. She can sit at my table. It's the holiday season.

We cruise a lot, just got back from a 25 day Med Cruise on Princess which was a "Disaster". Forgetting that we enjoy watching the Passengers who dress up for dinner. We never do and in fact only occasionaly go to dinner in the dining rooms but it is like watching a High School Prom night. Don't take anything away from dressing up as some like to and they add to the cruise and it's fun. :popcorn:

Prom dress / formal night. A gift from the gods. Way too easy. What did you think the attraction was really about ?

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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee (Post 1602715)

Yes, thank you, I give up ............. I had hoped that someone out there in cyberspace would be able to answer my query.

I rented tuxes for my husband and 2 sons when we were on Carnival, last time was in 2005 (I think). You send in their measurements so the tuxes did fit. Quality was hard to judge as they looked like standard tux material to me, nothing fancy. I ordered shirts for both formal nights and my "boys" looked wonderful for family photos. I appreciated the ease of having the tuxes delivered to the room, no wrinkles and no packing. Returned them to the cruise shop (on ship) when we were done. The convenience was appreciated!

Since then, my husband purchased a tux which we took on our last cruise in the Baltic (2018, RCCL), but he never wore it. Much less formal than earlier cruises in the dining room as most men wore a sports coat.

I was just on a Holland America Lines cruise to the Caribbean and overhead a gentleman complaining that he had forgotten his tuxedo tie and could neither rent nor buy on on board.