So you’ve received the invitation to the end-of-year event, or you’ve decided to finally bite the bullet and get married… whatever the occasion, the time calls for formalwear, which means either black tie, white tie or morning dress, with the details of each one determined by a unique set of sartorial rules that has rarely been bent.
White tie was and still is the most formal of formal, and unless your presence is required at state banquets, it’s highly unlikely that you will ever need to trouble yourself with this genre, so we’ll skip that for the purposes of this article.