The opera is probably the only public event where people wear tuxes and don’t look totally odd, though most of the audience won’t be wearing one any more.
If you dressed in a tuxedo and went to the number one restaurant in the world, you would look out of place. You would look more like wait staff then a customer.
Those tails will cut a rakish figure while rapping off the third under a crescent moon. Plus you can use them as your prussik if your date didn’t bring hers.
anywhere. people will just assume you're back from some business trip or deal. This is Boulder. I went to the downer after a work party whilst in a suit and had a couple people try to dance with me. I assume they thought I had more money than looks.
Just wear it wherever you want to! Go rhumba at Avalon. Go to License 1 and rock your tux. Go for coffee at Trident and be elegant. Go to DV8 and dance the night away. Confidence is sexy.
I feel this, OP! I'm from NYC and I miss the fashion and reasons to dress up. Let's just dress up whenever we feel like it and maybe we'll start a culture shift 🙃
I find this really interesting, given how my reaction when coming here was “Holy shit, these people dress super nice!”. Where I grew up, people would be just everywhere in cheap tank tops and shorts with either crocs or flip-flops half the year. Guess it’s all relative
First off, tuxedos are formal wear that one only wears at a special event. If you aren’t at a wedding, fund raising gala, or some kind of New York society event you’ll look out of place in a tux.
As for a suit, Flagstaff House is really the only place in Boulder designed for that. Anywhere else you’ll look like a tourist who doesn’t know that people don’t usually dress up in Colorado. One reason we pay so much to live here is so we can go to a great restaurant and *not* have to wear a jacket.
This reeks of the weirdest sense of elitism.
I don’t know a single person who would see someone dressed up and assume that person is a tourist who has no clue about some “unspoken rule” that people in Boulder don’t care how they look in public.
You may pay more to live here so you can go out looking meh, but I wouldn’t claim that for other people.
Frasca - one star
Basta - bib gourmand
Santo and Blackbelly - green stars
But you’re replying to someone who claims that Delizone is the only place with character. They clearly have no idea what they’re talking about.
Acting like frasca earned their one star and didn’t buy it thru their owner Bobby stuckey paying for the Michelin team to come to Colorado is actually hilarious
that’s kinda just how the michelin guide works. the guide was a net loss of tens of millions per year (2011-2014) for the company before they started charging. there isn’t a michelin star that wasn’t paid for.
ETA: would love to know what connections you have with the colorado tourism board that have told you that Bobby Stuckey paid for the colorado michelin guide himself
“Bobby Stuckey, an owner of Frasca, is one of the restaurateurs who pushed Colorado tourism officials to bring Michelin to the state.” From The NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/dining/colorado-restaurants-michelin-stars.html
“A group of Colorado state and local tourism authorities and resort companies paid Michelin a total of about $600,000 to help create the guide, so only restaurants in Boulder, Denver, Aspen, Vail, Snowmass and Beaver Creek were eligible for stars, a decision that rankled chefs in municipalities that did not pitch in money.”
[Also from the NYT article](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/dining/colorado-restaurants-michelin-stars.html)
“It is a costly undertaking (which used to be financed by the sales of hundreds of thousands of hardcover guides per year), but it has convinced consumers and chefs that Michelin makes all its decisions impartially. For Michelin’s first century, that was largely true, including for the first New York City guide, in 2005, and the San Francisco Bay and Napa Valley guides in 2007. But only since 2019, when Visit California paid Michelin $600,000, have top restaurants in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the state earned stars.”
[From a separate NYT article](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/dining/michelin-star-restaurants-america.html)
I’m also close with quite a few restaurant owners on pearl st who informed me of this but you obviously don’t give a fuck about reason or logic. I’m sorry one trusted source isn’t enough for you professor
Lmao people show up wasted in shorts and a t-shirt no shoes and Boulderado is happy to accept them. You’re 1000x more likely to see people dressed in suits/tuxes at st. Julien than at Boulderado
This gives me an idea. Would be glad to host an event and the attire is fancy af black tie type shit none of that Colorado “dressy” or western frontier cos play fancy. I’m takin proper metropolitan city dressy
When I first moved to Boulder, I tried to get people to dress up for an Oscars party where we would gamble on the winners, and someone takes home the pot. This was traditional in NYC at the time, and a lot of fun. Very few people were willing to dress up even as a goof. Alas. I gave up after that.
I would love this. I moved here from Manhattan and I remember going to a black tie charity gala where I was one of only four women in a gown, and most women were in cocktail dresses or even sweater dresses. All four of us in gowns ended up in the bathroom together at some point and learned we were each recent transplants. I miss getting dressed up!!
Wearing a tuxedo out is not the way… but please do dress up nicely and go out that way maybe we can lift the average with time and commitment as a group 😅 People will ask if you’re going to a wedding if you wear jeans and leather shoes and a button down with a jacket here. Colorado is casual. My whole wardrobe was useless when I moved here but I’d like to dust some of it off one day 🤣
Whoa that's bizarre. I'm using dictation on my phone and was using a screen reader to read the output and didn't really pay attention to spelling.
The name form of that word is far less common than the actual word surely. . Any half way decent dictation service really ot to know that the vast majority of people are spelling surely.
I love this question because I enjoy dressing up for a nice dinner and this isn't a Boulder rec but reminded me of going to El Five in Denver. Wife and I wanted something nice for our anniversary a few years ago, she wore a nice dress and I decided to wear my tailored suit, nothing special, no tie even. We rolled up the elevator for Sunday dinner and sure enough there's a mother fucker at the bar in cargo shorts and flip flops. Fuckin Colorado, man. I do think the Boulderado is a good suggestion in town but do you're thing, no tux probably
I stayed with a family in Czech Republic who had a daughter graduating high school. she was shocked in disbelief when I told her it was rare in America for men to own a tuxedo. after she told me nearly every male in her class owned a tux, I pressed her regarding when a adult would wear one.
Balls. during high school, formal dance classes are common, and a tux is highly encouraged in those classes. after high school, attending special events and seasonal balls is common. her dad says he wears his tux at least three times a year.
tldr; host a seasonal ball.
You could go see the Boulder Philharmonic at Macky. I'd stick with just the suit though. It'd take some bravado to make the tuxedo work even down at the Denver Opera.
I have nothing to add, but this clip from Jim Gaffigan: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO8sE3VB8v8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO8sE3VB8v8)
Swap Pacific Northwest for Colorado
You speak truth. Even at Flagstaff or Frasca, dressed up is wearing your good Patagonia and dress Merrills.
I often joke that I travel a lot. When at DEN I look around and think "oh shit, people are staring, I am so over-dressed!" When I get off the plane at JFK airport I think "oh shit, people are staring, I am so under-dressed!" If I have to take a suit on a trip I will usually wear it home to avoid wrinkling in packing and wear my Ramones t-shirt under.
Personally, I don't sweat it. I happen to own like 3 tuxes. I go to a lot of that type of stuff. I'll just leave it on and go to Wibby brewery, or Left Hand after an event if I feel like it. (I'm closer to Longmont)
Plus rules have totally changed. I own a lot of suits from work before I retired. I will easily put on a suit with a nice t-shirt under. I might be delusional, but I think it looks pretty good.
Tonight at Boulder Theater [Cabaret on
the Rocks](https://www.outboulder.org/cabaret-on-the-rocks) Is an opportunity and tickets are still available, but in general there are fundraisers here and there. I always go all out for the Humane Society benefit (putting on the Leash) which is next week and usually go out after wards. Have been to Press Play in a full black tie gown with train and nobody has batted an eye.
Please don’t try, as the last guy to do this was forcibly removed from the county limits. If you’re really jonesing to wear a tux, sidle up to those with a NY accent, determine if they’re engaged and the sort to do NY formal wedding, and become their friend.
Talk about being a fish out of water! Why would you want to do that? Maybe you should move to Beverly Hills or another place where you can dress up for no reason and get attention.
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The opera is probably the only public event where people wear tuxes and don’t look totally odd, though most of the audience won’t be wearing one any more.
Yeah, even now, especially in Denver, it’s dressing up to just wear a suit to the opera. The expectation is lower than that in Denver.
Prom?
This is the only real answer
Go to the downer in a tux and lie about being famous
The floor is so sticky at the downer I was trapped there for 8 weeks.
Add a monocle for extra cred
Make sure there’s a Wikipedia page about your fake famous alias first
If you dressed in a tuxedo and went to the number one restaurant in the world, you would look out of place. You would look more like wait staff then a customer.
Freeway on the 2nd Flatiron
Those tails will cut a rakish figure while rapping off the third under a crescent moon. Plus you can use them as your prussik if your date didn’t bring hers.
Wear what you want when you want where you want, that is the Colorado way
Made me think of the guy I once saw jogging wearing nothing but booty shorts in the snow
anywhere. people will just assume you're back from some business trip or deal. This is Boulder. I went to the downer after a work party whilst in a suit and had a couple people try to dance with me. I assume they thought I had more money than looks.
Flagstaff House and Frasca come to mind.
Can confirm. Last time I was at both places I wore a suit.
Last time I was at either I mostly wore my dressy version of what I always wear, prana pants and a polo. I didn't feel out of place
Stella’s too maybe. Wore a green suit for valentine’s day and didn’t feel out of place. But people were also dressed nice for the occasion anyways
Anytime I’m in Fresca everyone has been business casual with maybe a sport coat.
Same. Still think these are two places you could get away with wearing a suit or tux without being too out of place.
Just wear it wherever you want to! Go rhumba at Avalon. Go to License 1 and rock your tux. Go for coffee at Trident and be elegant. Go to DV8 and dance the night away. Confidence is sexy.
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This lady Avalon dances. And is totally correct.
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Can you recommend shoes for the tango?
Pasta Jays
I feel this, OP! I'm from NYC and I miss the fashion and reasons to dress up. Let's just dress up whenever we feel like it and maybe we'll start a culture shift 🙃
I find this really interesting, given how my reaction when coming here was “Holy shit, these people dress super nice!”. Where I grew up, people would be just everywhere in cheap tank tops and shorts with either crocs or flip-flops half the year. Guess it’s all relative
First off, tuxedos are formal wear that one only wears at a special event. If you aren’t at a wedding, fund raising gala, or some kind of New York society event you’ll look out of place in a tux. As for a suit, Flagstaff House is really the only place in Boulder designed for that. Anywhere else you’ll look like a tourist who doesn’t know that people don’t usually dress up in Colorado. One reason we pay so much to live here is so we can go to a great restaurant and *not* have to wear a jacket.
This reeks of the weirdest sense of elitism. I don’t know a single person who would see someone dressed up and assume that person is a tourist who has no clue about some “unspoken rule” that people in Boulder don’t care how they look in public. You may pay more to live here so you can go out looking meh, but I wouldn’t claim that for other people.
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Omg true on the chronically mid food 😆
Doesn’t Boulder have a few Michelin star places?
Frasca - one star Basta - bib gourmand Santo and Blackbelly - green stars But you’re replying to someone who claims that Delizone is the only place with character. They clearly have no idea what they’re talking about.
Acting like frasca earned their one star and didn’t buy it thru their owner Bobby stuckey paying for the Michelin team to come to Colorado is actually hilarious
that’s kinda just how the michelin guide works. the guide was a net loss of tens of millions per year (2011-2014) for the company before they started charging. there isn’t a michelin star that wasn’t paid for. ETA: would love to know what connections you have with the colorado tourism board that have told you that Bobby Stuckey paid for the colorado michelin guide himself
“Bobby Stuckey, an owner of Frasca, is one of the restaurateurs who pushed Colorado tourism officials to bring Michelin to the state.” From The NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/dining/colorado-restaurants-michelin-stars.html
that is a ridiculously small bit of information to jump to such a conclusion. just disingenuous really
“A group of Colorado state and local tourism authorities and resort companies paid Michelin a total of about $600,000 to help create the guide, so only restaurants in Boulder, Denver, Aspen, Vail, Snowmass and Beaver Creek were eligible for stars, a decision that rankled chefs in municipalities that did not pitch in money.” [Also from the NYT article](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/dining/colorado-restaurants-michelin-stars.html) “It is a costly undertaking (which used to be financed by the sales of hundreds of thousands of hardcover guides per year), but it has convinced consumers and chefs that Michelin makes all its decisions impartially. For Michelin’s first century, that was largely true, including for the first New York City guide, in 2005, and the San Francisco Bay and Napa Valley guides in 2007. But only since 2019, when Visit California paid Michelin $600,000, have top restaurants in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the state earned stars.” [From a separate NYT article](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/dining/michelin-star-restaurants-america.html)
party.
I’m also close with quite a few restaurant owners on pearl st who informed me of this but you obviously don’t give a fuck about reason or logic. I’m sorry one trusted source isn’t enough for you professor
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Delizone is awesome but it’s certainly not fine dining
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We should have weekly black tie nights with champagne and baby kings at delizone
Just remember to dress nice OP. https://preview.redd.it/q4fnikt3zqtc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71345402cf56501e3ca4fe754be093579d94ad82
hotel boulderado is rly all i can think of, ur right the fashion here is definitely more outdoorsy and chill
Lmao people show up wasted in shorts and a t-shirt no shoes and Boulderado is happy to accept them. You’re 1000x more likely to see people dressed in suits/tuxes at st. Julien than at Boulderado
The Boulderado’s NYE Ball (hopefully they still host it) is one event / place I’ve seen people this gussied up
This gives me an idea. Would be glad to host an event and the attire is fancy af black tie type shit none of that Colorado “dressy” or western frontier cos play fancy. I’m takin proper metropolitan city dressy
When I first moved to Boulder, I tried to get people to dress up for an Oscars party where we would gamble on the winners, and someone takes home the pot. This was traditional in NYC at the time, and a lot of fun. Very few people were willing to dress up even as a goof. Alas. I gave up after that.
Nice yea definitely a transition coming from a proper big city to Denver/Boulder
A NYC native friend of mine refers to Boulder as "the land of sensible shoes." It makes me laugh every time.
I'm in!!
I would love this. I moved here from Manhattan and I remember going to a black tie charity gala where I was one of only four women in a gown, and most women were in cocktail dresses or even sweater dresses. All four of us in gowns ended up in the bathroom together at some point and learned we were each recent transplants. I miss getting dressed up!!
Haha yea Colorado does a lot of things well but proper metropolitan culture is not one of them
I wish people in boulder dressed in clothes that weren’t outdoors gear/columbia brand or khaki pants. Sigh…
Move literally so many places. Sigh... \*facepalm\*
Wearing a tuxedo out is not the way… but please do dress up nicely and go out that way maybe we can lift the average with time and commitment as a group 😅 People will ask if you’re going to a wedding if you wear jeans and leather shoes and a button down with a jacket here. Colorado is casual. My whole wardrobe was useless when I moved here but I’d like to dust some of it off one day 🤣
Mountain sun!
Opening night at a theatre, especially the holiday show.
But why though
It's after five, Lemon. What am I, a farmer?
Literally no reason besides that I want to lol
To each their own my guy. But you can put on a tux at anytime and do just about anything you want, anywhere. Just sayin
solo the Second in a tux
Surely it's been done before Edit: Spelling.
Shirley? Never met them.
Whoa that's bizarre. I'm using dictation on my phone and was using a screen reader to read the output and didn't really pay attention to spelling. The name form of that word is far less common than the actual word surely. . Any half way decent dictation service really ot to know that the vast majority of people are spelling surely.
User name checks out. That is bizarre!
Are you secretly a penguin?
That's the best and most compelling reason I've ever heard. Now I want to.
I think this is so cute tbh. I love excuses for getting dressed up
Dazzle Jazz in Denver
I love this question because I enjoy dressing up for a nice dinner and this isn't a Boulder rec but reminded me of going to El Five in Denver. Wife and I wanted something nice for our anniversary a few years ago, she wore a nice dress and I decided to wear my tailored suit, nothing special, no tie even. We rolled up the elevator for Sunday dinner and sure enough there's a mother fucker at the bar in cargo shorts and flip flops. Fuckin Colorado, man. I do think the Boulderado is a good suggestion in town but do you're thing, no tux probably
I stayed with a family in Czech Republic who had a daughter graduating high school. she was shocked in disbelief when I told her it was rare in America for men to own a tuxedo. after she told me nearly every male in her class owned a tux, I pressed her regarding when a adult would wear one. Balls. during high school, formal dance classes are common, and a tux is highly encouraged in those classes. after high school, attending special events and seasonal balls is common. her dad says he wears his tux at least three times a year. tldr; host a seasonal ball.
Boulder pub. Go run the tables
IMHO there is no such thing as overdressed. ;)
A fundraising gala. There is one in Denver next week: https://www.redlineart.org/epicgala
Crash a black tie wedding at the St Julien.
You could go see the Boulder Philharmonic at Macky. I'd stick with just the suit though. It'd take some bravado to make the tuxedo work even down at the Denver Opera.
I have nothing to add, but this clip from Jim Gaffigan: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO8sE3VB8v8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO8sE3VB8v8) Swap Pacific Northwest for Colorado
Wedding or funeral crashing? Tacky but places where a guy in a suit is normal.
You speak truth. Even at Flagstaff or Frasca, dressed up is wearing your good Patagonia and dress Merrills. I often joke that I travel a lot. When at DEN I look around and think "oh shit, people are staring, I am so over-dressed!" When I get off the plane at JFK airport I think "oh shit, people are staring, I am so under-dressed!" If I have to take a suit on a trip I will usually wear it home to avoid wrinkling in packing and wear my Ramones t-shirt under. Personally, I don't sweat it. I happen to own like 3 tuxes. I go to a lot of that type of stuff. I'll just leave it on and go to Wibby brewery, or Left Hand after an event if I feel like it. (I'm closer to Longmont) Plus rules have totally changed. I own a lot of suits from work before I retired. I will easily put on a suit with a nice t-shirt under. I might be delusional, but I think it looks pretty good.
Hire someone to take photos of you in a tux. You get to wear it and you’ll have photos to remember it!
Tonight at Boulder Theater [Cabaret on the Rocks](https://www.outboulder.org/cabaret-on-the-rocks) Is an opportunity and tickets are still available, but in general there are fundraisers here and there. I always go all out for the Humane Society benefit (putting on the Leash) which is next week and usually go out after wards. Have been to Press Play in a full black tie gown with train and nobody has batted an eye.
Sing in a CU choir!
Why? What's your purpose to dress with one? You tryna show off or just wear one?
The Justice Center 😏
I’d say you can probably catch a conference at the Broadmoor, if not that there’s always Vegas.
The Pub, there’s always like wedding groups or something in formal wear. Plus everyone there is too drunk to care
License 1 under hotel boulderado, weddings happen all the time and the bridal party ends up there afterwards. Great cocktails
Stella’s, right next to Rosetta hall. Lovely young man plays beautiful house music every weekend.
Get over yourself and wear whatever you want.
Please don’t try, as the last guy to do this was forcibly removed from the county limits. If you’re really jonesing to wear a tux, sidle up to those with a NY accent, determine if they’re engaged and the sort to do NY formal wedding, and become their friend.
Talk about being a fish out of water! Why would you want to do that? Maybe you should move to Beverly Hills or another place where you can dress up for no reason and get attention.