Heir to the tobacco fortune, Pierre Lorillard IV was a blueblood New Yorker of French extraction who set the fashion world on its collective ear in 1886.

His family commissioned and wore the first of these future prom rentals to the Autumn Ball at his exclusive country club north of New York, in a village called Tuxedo Park.

This former Indian Territory is named for Algonquian Chief P’tauk-Seet (which means ‘wolf').  Both the “p” and the Chief are silent -- so D is correct.







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