How did wearing a jean jacket and a pair of jeans get to become quintessentially Canadian?
Calling the outfit the Canadian Tuxedo seems about as accurate as the assumption that we all live in igloos and drive to work with sled dogs. Canadians have given the world some wonderful inventions. From the zipper to the telephone, Hawaiian pizza to the Caesar, 5 pin bowling to the Wonderbra, Canadians have stepped in when the world needed help and solved a problem. Yet, during this sesquicentennial celebration of #Canada150 a burning question remains about our greatest gift to fashion (Wonderbra exclueded): why is it called a Canadian Tuxedo?
Each time someone is caught wearing denim head to toe they’re not accused of rocking a Kentucky Tux or an Alabama Formal – it’s a Canadian Tuxedo.
Justin Trudeau wore one to the final Tragically Hip show.
Let's be the Canada we were tonight, all the time: United, compassionate and cool AF. #TheHip #TragicallyHip pic.twitter.com/2Kd9uMD1nw
— brianne hogan (@briannehogan) August 21, 2016
The Canadian 2012 Olympic team swapped out the denim for khakis to complete their tuxedo look.
How did we get this label?
Because of Bing Crosby being barred from a hotel during a 1951 visit to Vancouver.

So it was Levi’s– an AMERICAN company – that gave us the icon Canadian Tuxedo branding
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