A piece of local fashion has received its highest-profile outing yet.
Premier David Eby wore a Salmo dinner jacket for a news conference Tuesday outside the BC legislature called to discuss Canada’s response to US tariffs.
“It is the single most Canadian piece of clothing that I own,” Eby said, thanking Kootenay Central MLA Brittny Anderson for giving it to him.
The red and black plaid shirt was mentioned a few more times during the news conference.
Reporter Wolfgang Depner of The Canadian Press complimented Eby on his “Canadian tuxedo,” before Eby insisted it was in fact a Salmo dinner jacket.
The term “Salmo dinner jacket” has been around since at least 2005, but residents insist it is much older than that. It has its own entry in the Urban Dictionary.
The phrase “dinner jacket” in reference to this type of shirt has also been applied to many other industrial towns, including Sudbury, Ont. But the Village of Salmo officially embraced the idea in 2016 when it began selling shirts and related items with the village’s logo on them.
In 2017, then-premier John Horgan wore a Salmo dinner jacket to a Union of BC Municipalities gala where the village was presented with two awards.
You can watch the full news conference below.
