Daily Trivia – December 26

I met him once. Tuxedo the cat.

Silvery it was.

The Tuxedo was introduced as a compromise between formal wear and a smoking jacket. Is there a town called Tuxedo Junction? That could be it.

A feeble guess, but it’s all I got.

Not a US clothing invention.

Beteljuice wears a Tux sometimes.  

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from the US?????

No way Jose.

This would have been in the spring of 1975, on a drive from Saratoga Springs NY, through New Jersey, and on to Albuquerque. (That’s a strange route!) It was foggy as hell, pea soup, visibility down to a few feet. I had fog lights on my Ford Bronco, and I was creeping along at 20 mph. I wondered why there seemed to be no other cars on the road. I looked in the mirror and saw a string of headlights that went on almost infinitely. They were all following me, relying on my fog lights. If I had driven off the road, I would have taken 200 cars with me. I remember seeing a sign for Tuxedo Park and thinking it was an interesting name.

… where did the name “Tuxedo” come from for the place?

Is that Algonqin? What does it mean in its original language?

The name is derived from a Native American word of the Lenape language, <i>tucsedo</i> or <i>p’tuxseepu</i>, which is said to mean “crooked water” <sup id=”cite_ref-3″ class=”reference”></sup>or “crooked river.”<sup id=”cite_ref-4″ class=”reference”></sup>

Tuxedo Park is a village within the southern part of the town of Tuxedo, near New York Route 17 and the New York State Thruway.

The evening dress for men now popularly known in America as a <i>tuxedo</i>, takes its name from Tuxedo Park. It was brought there by James Brown Potter, who had been introduced to the garment by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII.)<sup id=”cite_ref-5″ class=”reference”></sup>

FYI:  James Brown Potter was the son of Brown Brothers partner Howard Potter, thus the name given to honor the Brown brother who hired him, James Brown (1791-1877)