Can you wear a smoking jacket when you go out?

Answer 1

The tuxedo debuted during the Gilded Age as a more comfortable alternative to white tie and tails. And what was considered up to snuff is anything but strictly black and white. "When you went out in polite society," referring to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century social codes, "you wore black and white. But at home, where things were more relaxed, people would substitute a velvet smoking jacket in bottle green or burgundy