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Tuxedo comes from an Algonquin word, "p'tuksit", which means "animal with the round foot" (wolf). The name of the dinner jacket comes from the town of the same name, Tuxedo, NY, a rich community on the west bank of the Hudson River 40 miles north of Manhattan, where the Very Wealthy, in the mid-19th century, maintained "cottages" and gave each other lavish parties. One enterprising fellow did the bold thing (c. 1893) of cutting the tails off the formal dinner coat which was de rigueur at the time, and a name and a style was born. From Paul V. Hartman.
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