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Cocktail Dress
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nearlyrich wrote: »I go to this kind of event several times a year, the jacket and tie night you could wear a pair of black trousers and an evening top, sparkly or jewelled, Black Tie doesn't have to be a bow tie these days or a Tux...if it's a work do get your hubby to check what his colleagues are wearing.
You can get a decent Tux from M & S or you could last Christmas time as my OH needed a new one for my works do.
That might be a generational or regional thing. OP should definitely check if her OH is thinking of not wearing a dinner suit. The events which OH and I have gone to specifying this dress code, all the men have most definitely been in dinner suits (we are in our 40's and live and work in London)0 -
It is from husband's work. I should imagine the ages will range though husband has no idea who else is going. His invitation got lost and only when he was chased up about why he hadn't RSVP'd did he discover about it. Regional, well it will be people from all over and is being held in a different place to where HO is. I do like the suggestion of wearing a sparkly top and trousers for the jacket and tie night to differentiate between the more formal code the following night.0
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That might be a generational or regional thing. OP should definitely check if her OH is thinking of not wearing a dinner suit. The events which OH and I have gone to specifying this dress code, all the men have most definitely been in dinner suits (we are in our 40's and live and work in London)
Black tie for me reads dinner suits2014 Target;
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mountainofdebt wrote: »Black tie for me reads dinner suits
Me too. I was surprised that nearlyrich's experience was that it didn't. But a dinner suit will never be wrong with an invitation like this, whereas a lounge suit could be.0 -
Black tie would be a dinner suit or Scottish Highland Dress or some kind of uniform (no idea about this), many men don't own a dinner suit though. No-one at such an event would be crass enough to comment on someone not wearing a dinner suit, surely?0
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arbroath_lass wrote: »Black tie would be a dinner suit or Scottish Highland Dress or some kind of uniform (no idea about this), many men don't own a dinner suit though. No-one at such an event would be crass enough to comment on someone not wearing a dinner suit, surely?
would you want to be the one in a 'normal' suit when every tom !!!!!! and harry is in a black dinner jacket? I know I wouldn't.
If the OP's OH wouldn't normal wear one then I would hire one but I would certainly wear one2014 Target;
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He doesn't own one and has mentioned hiring one.0
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mountainofdebt wrote: »would you want to be the one in a 'normal' suit when every tom !!!!!! and harry is in a black dinner jacket? I know I wouldn't.
No, you are right, I wouldn't. But I certainly wouldn't comment, either to their face or behind their back, on someone who didn't. I would also have something to say to anyone who did!0 -
arbroath_lass wrote: »No, you are right, I wouldn't. But I certainly wouldn't comment, either to their face or behind their back, on someone who didn't. I would also have something to say to anyone who did!
But (and I know this is a big but as I don't know what sort of industry the OH is in) if its that sort of do then I would imagine that the company's big wigs will be there and they will notice.,....might not say anything but they will notice.
In any case, there's nothing like saying 'well hello boys' than towards the end of the evening untying a man's bow tie ..........2014 Target;
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Ive worn a strapless dress to a meal and to a night out, I very rarely go to nightclubs, a friend recently wore a strapless dress to a wedding.
A strapless dress to a wedding? Classy!
None of the occasions you mentioned were black-tie does. Wearing a strapless dress to a black-tie do is likely to mark you out as the one person in the room who's never been to one, and is unlikely to be asked to another. Trust me.0
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