A dinner jacket in midnight black Nene velvet, cut with a wide lapel, the motif worked into the pile rather than printed upon it.

Nene in midnight black, a patterned velvet in which the motif is worked into the pile and therefore shows in texture rather than in colour. Cut with a wide lapel. Made in Portugal.

Black upon black is how a patterned dinner jacket keeps its place within black tie rather than beside it. The wide lapel is the older proportion, and the more generous across the chest.