Tuxedo or Bust

I'm being told that someone near to me will need to spend hundreds of dollars to obtain a tuxedo for a child who is taking orchestra in high school, or they may be failed. Can that simply be another broken California thing or is it something Americans are experiencing? Perhaps since CA is a blue state he'll be able to find some billion dollar government "no tuxedo left behind" program that subsidizes this distraction from focusing on the skills needed to teach a child to play an instrument.

Any suggestions are most welcome for a good place to get a reasonably priced tuxedo, for the duration of the school year, until the child grows out of it, or until the program is cut or the teacher laid off in this robust economy.