Black Tie Club International formed in Toronto, Canada in 1990. The Club was founded to meet new people who share our common outlook, to have fun and to enjoy one another's company in a Black Tie setting. The club's Founder has always believed that, no matter what you may look like, when you put on a tux you look adorable! Our dinners are Black Tie Only — with no exceptions.

Black Tie Club started as an 18-member local group in Toronto. Soon some friends heard about the group and wanted to start a chapter in their own area and be linked to the Toronto group. We now have more than 800 members in 21 local chapters across North America (see map below) plus an international chapter.

Every Black Tie Club chapter has at least two cocktail parties and dinners each year, but many chapters have four or more dinners and other events for their members each year. All members are sent invitations to their own chapter's cocktail parties and dinners. When members are traveling in any area where another chapter is hosting a dinner, the visiting member can contact the local chapter to enquire whether there is room for them to attend.

Black Tie Club International invites the members of all of its local chapters to attend one club-wide annual event each year. The location and theme for this special annual event changes from year to year. These four-day affairs are thoroughly enjoyed by all the members who attend. Black Tie Club also occasionally organizes trips for groups of club members to world-wide destinations.

Black Tie Club produces a color newsletter with reports about local chapter dinners, news items, a listing of upcoming dinners and other chapter events and many other interesting articles