{"id":866,"date":"2003-11-04T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/11\/04\/men-dont-rent-a-tuxedo-buy\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T20:01:30","slug":"men-dont-rent-a-tuxedo-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/04\/men-dont-rent-a-tuxedo-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Men: Don&#8217;t rent a tuxedo, BUY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20031104me-tux.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20031104me-tux_small.jpg\" xthumbnail-orig-image=\"me-tux.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"89\" height=\"233\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nA few weeks ago, I rented a tux for my sister&#8217;s wedding. Final cost: $150 and 3 visits to the bridal shop (fitting, pickup, drop-off). For the Saturday night event, I wanted a tux so I went to Syms, picked one out that I liked from their pretty good selection, got a pre-done bow-tie, cummerbund, a tie-yourself bowtie (I vowed to learn but ran out of time for this event), and a nice shirt for&#8230; get this  $210 total, tax included. If I wear it TWICE, it will have paid for itself. And most importantly, it&#8217;s exactly what I wanted.   Oh, I suppose I should include in this cost the $20 extra I spent on the silk white handkerchief and the $50 I will likely spend on cufflinks and those shirt button-hole things. I&#8217;m very happy with the look of the hanky (my wedding rental tux didn&#8217;t have a hanky). I didn&#8217;t want to spend the money on the cufflinks but when I noticed that most everyone except for the caterer had them at the masquerade, I knew that I had to get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I rented a tux for my sister&#8217;s wedding. Final cost: $150 and 3 visits to the bridal shop (fitting, pickup, drop-off). For the Saturday night event, I wanted a tux so I went to Syms, picked one out that I liked from their pretty good selection, got a pre-done bow-tie, cummerbund, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}