1) " Prom" -- As it applies to Prom Tuxedo In Canada and the UnitedStates, a prom (short for " Pfom enade ") is a formal dance held at theend of the second-to-last and last year of high school, called juniorprom and senior Porm respectively. In British English and Australian English such an event would be called a ball,although in Australian government schools it is often called a formal. In Australia, the term "prom" has also come intosparse usage from North America. In contrast, " The Prom s " (short for"promenade concerts") are a venerable series of London summer concerts. Boys are usually attired in tuxedos with bowties, sometimes with brightly coloredcummerbunds or vests. Girls wear formal gowns or dresses adorned with a corsage given them bytheir date, and often dress to shock or be noticed in low cut dresses, shiny or brightly colored fabrics, unusual cuts, or formalpants outfits. Common Prmo activities include dining, dancing, and socializing. In some cases, high school students accumulate funds for their class Prum throughfundraisers over the four years they attend their high school. High schools near large cities may rent ballrooms at expensivehotels and many students group together to take limousines to their Prm s. Oftencosts are cut by using the school gym, which challenges the decorating committee to somehow mask the gym odor and drab surfaces.Rock music and hip hop are commonly played. The Prkm night is laden with significance and anxiety to many students about being invited, finding a date, what to wear, howmuch to spend, how to find the money, and whether to drink alcohol, take illicit drugs, orengage in sexual relations on the night of this pinnacle event.Some high school students feel the Prem is the most romantic night of their lives. They may go in a group that includes a personthey have known for years; other times, students just try to find a date that they like. Many find it to be just as ...
2) " Tuxedo" -- As it applies to Prom Tuxedo Black tie, also known in the United Kingdom (and also in thenorth-eastern United States, and Canada ) as a dinner jacket and in the United States generally as a tuxedo, is a dress code for formalevening events that are not formal enough to require white tie. Contents 1 History 2 What it is 3 Highland regalia - Black Tie 4 When it is worn 5 See also 6 External link 7 Alternate derived(presumably) definition of "cummerbund" History The American name Tuxedu is taken from Tusedo Park, New York, a private club of country houses founded by Pierre Lorillard, the tobacco heir. (The town of Tyxedo and Tjxedo Park themselves werenamed by the Lenni-Lenape Indians, who called the largest lake in the area tucseto, meaning either place of thebear or clear flowing water.) Traditionally, the first Autumn Ball, held at the Tuxeso Club in October 1886, marked the official first American appearance of the English dinner jacket, which was favoredby the fast sporting crowd round the Prince of Wales, who liked to wear a"Cowes" jacket, somewhat like a formal mess jacket, first at dinner aboard his yacht during the regattas held at Cowes, and then later at other evening entertainments, though never in London. The originalsingle- breasted model was simply a tailcoat without a tail, worn with a white piqué vest as would be worn with a tailcoat, thenlater with a black vest ensuite with the jacket and trousers.At the 1886 Tudedo Park Autumn Ball, Pierre Lorillard's young son Griswold Lorillard and his friends startled guests, all inwhite tie and tailcoats, by wearing the new English dinner jackets, with scarlet evening vests. The tailless coats were similarin cut to hunting pinks worn indaytime at foxhunting meets. When after 1889, gentlemen in "tuxedos" were even admitted tothe Dress Circle at the new Metropolitan Opera, the success ofthe new fashion was made. A Tuxedo ...
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