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Introduction
Feeling Fancy? Impress your guest with this tuxedo napkin that resembles a smoking jacket or suit! Fold your napkins into a shapely tuxedo and add a sophisticated and unique touch to your table settings! The smoking jacket fold is easy and it looks super elegant so it works well with fancy dinner parties or with small lunches on the go.
In this guide, we’ll show you all the jacket napkin fold steps so you could try this fold yourself!
The quality of the napkin does matter for this fold considering the idea behind a suit. But if you have a neat and stiff napkin you’re good to go to have this set up on your dinner table.
If you feel like you don’t have the perfect cloth for the Tuxedo fold then consider using a paper napkin. The tuxedo can look surprisingly good with paper due to the sharp lines that paper naturally will have.
Fold a triangle out of the napkin
You'll need a square napkin for this fold. Lay it front of you with one of the points towards you.
To make a triangle, bring the top corner to the bottom corner.
Form the napkin into a tuxedo
Fold the top edge downwards and fold it towards you. About half an inch should be good depending on the size of the napkin. You are forming the collar by doing this step.
Fold the right part towards the bottom. You would be amazed how quickly the tuxedo table napkin folding is done.
Do the same for the other side. What makes this fold pretty easy is that it's symmetrical.
There is a point on the left and right sides of the napkin. You'll need to fold this towards the back so that you'll have a vertical edge on both sides. Start with the right side.
Do the same for the left side. Remember, the steps are simple but symmetry means you have to adjustments here and there.
Add a Bowtie to the Tuxedo Napkin Fold
To complete the dinner jacket napkin fold we'll just add a small yet eye-catching prop. But first, fold the bottom part towards the back.
Place a nice bowtie on the tuxedo napkin.. Once done, you have successfully learned how to make this fold! Be sure to check out our dozens of other napkin folds for your dinner table setting needs.
Extra Tips
- You would want a slightly stiff napkin cloth to imitate a real tuxedo. So maybe you'd want to iron or starched your napkin.
- Precision is not that important but uniformity is in a table setting. So you could have a narrow tuxedo napkin or a wider one but there shouldn't be any extremes.
- Always have fun while folding the napkins. Also, you could add names to the bow tie to make it more personalized.
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