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In our way back north, we’re bypassing all manner of intriguing words and phrases that could have made our final cut. In neighbouring South Carolina, for instance, we find the origin of the Charleston dance, the jaunty music which is thought to have originated among black dockworkers in the state capital of Charleston.
Bourbon, likewise, takes its name from Bourbon County in neighbouring Kentucky; the county in turn is said to take its name from the French royal house of Bourbon, after whose king, Louis XVI, it was named in recognition of his support for the American cause during the War of Independence.
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Further up the coast, a pocosin is an area of marshland supposedly named after a low-lying river in eastern Virginia. A Virginia fence, meanwhile, is a barrier made by laying interlocking timbers one atop the other in a zigzag pattern; to walk a Virginia fence, in reference to its shape, is an eighteenth-century expression meaning ‘to walk the zigzagging walk of a drunkard’.
Heading up into New England, a monadnock is an isolated peak or ridge that stands alone in an otherwise flat landscape, and takes its name from a Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire that is a prime example.
A chautauqua is an outdoor symposium of artistic and education events, so called as the very first symposium of this kind was organised at Chautauqua, in New York, in 1874. And we’re staying in New York for the story behind how a tiny village on the New Jersey border gave its name to an item of fashion now known the world over.
Home to a little over six hundred people, the village in question is Tuxedo Park, in the southern corner of Orange County, New York. Tuxedo – whose name is thought to be an Algonquian word meaning ‘crooked river’ – was originally developed as a mining town in the late 1700s, but when the local iron deposits were exhausted the land was turned over to lumbering, before establishing itself as a hunting and fishing reserve in the late nineteenth century. It was around this time, in 1885, that the local landowner Pierre Lorillard IV (along with several well-to-do inventors, including Viscount Astor) redeveloped Tuxedo Park into a luxury retreat for New York’s wealthiest socialites. A clubhouse and numerous surrounding cottages and residences were built, and over time several new developments extended Tuxedo Park into a fully functioning village.
It was Lorillard’s clubhouse that served as the focus of the resort, however – and it was there, in 1886, that a style of suit jacket that would eventually bear Tuxedo Park’s name was finally introduced.
Credit for precisely who brought the tuxedo to Tuxedo Park is unclear. The style itself developed somewhat earlier than the mid 1880s, as a lighter, more casual, and tailless variety of the considerably more standard tailcoat. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, is known to have worn a tailless coat of this kind that he had made for him by Henry Poole & Co., on Savile Row in London, and some stories claim it was the young prince who brought the style with him during a tour of America in 1860. Another story credits the style to Griswold Lorillard, Pierre Lorillard’s son, who according to society newspapers at the time scandalously attended the 1886 autumn ball at Tuxedo Park wearing a ‘tailless dress coat’.
But Tuxedo Park’s own archives doubt both the prince’s and Griswold’s stake to the claim, and instead credit a merchant banker named James Brown Potter with introducing the style to the resort, having first come across it while working in London. No matter how the tuxedo jacket arrived at Tuxedo Park, however, and no matter who might be responsible for it, the style can hardly be said to have been an instant success.
Newspaper reports at the time decried the jacket as too informal to be of respectable use, and the scandalous style soon became associated with upstart nouveau-riche mavericks, and was rejected outright by American high society. Over the years that followed, however, that stance softened, so that by the 1890s the tuxedo’s lighter, more casual style led to it being adopted as a summer, or less formal, alternative to the standard tailcoat.
With the brow-furrowing, pearl-clutching stigma that had been attached to it now gone, the tuxedo’s popularity skyrocketed. And it has remained many people’s black-tie style of choice ever since.
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