Children in black tie

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

When an invitation says 'black tie' how should one dress a child? Is an ordinary suit appropriate, or should he wear some sort of waistcoat/bow tie combination?

Comments

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Cambridge summer is often rather too hot for me. I'm not very good at wearing clothes a lot of the time, though, so I should be able to cope,socially.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

In the event of it becoming relevant on my next pass through Cambridge, which won't alas be this year, I shall bear that in mind. I can't stand clothes, and the half of the year here when it is hot enough not to need to wear them indoors is a great godsend to me; alas, papersky overheats easily, and is mostly more comfortable in winter. Still, it's not as if there's anywhere else in the world we'd each get half a year of comfort, and winter that is sunny and -20 a great deal of the time and grey and wet only occasionally is a lot better for both of us than the Land Where Water Melts.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Cambridge summer is always too hot for me. But I guess people would prefer me to wear clothes.