The shirt required for white tie is very specific. This uniform is equivalent to white tie in usage. He was known for wearing a waxed mustache along with white tie and tails. This uniform is worn as an equivalent to civilian white tie dress. It is always worn with white tie, bands and hood. This is generally worn as the military equivalent of white tie or black tie. Mess dress would be worn at occasions requiring white tie or black tie. These usually resemble top hats and must be worn with white tie. Evening functions were usually white tie. He buys top hat, white tie and tails. It could be worn as either a black tie or white tie combination. There is a "Blue-White" Dress for summer, and Evening Dress for formal (white tie) occasions. Historically, white tie was worn for the opera. It is also similar, but not the same, as formal white tie dress. Payn and Walter Crisham sang and danced "White Tie and Tails".