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Message: [QUOTE="Bibliophile, post: 457081, member: 204174"] Although he did not have it with him when he went down with the Titanic, Spanish First Class passenger Victor Peñasco owned a very stylish silk smoking suit which his family kept in his memory. It represents a mixture of the formal and informal. In Spanish, a tuxedo is an esmoquin or smoking jacket, and in French it is le smoking. [URL unfurl="true"]https://kevinbrownhistorian.wordpress.com/2022/01/07/a-dandy-on-the-titanic/[/URL] For a younger man, a tuxedo suit would have been a fashionable alternative to full white tie evening dress and a tuxedo style smoking jacket for comfort in privacy. Peñasco had exquisite taste. [/QUOTE]