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  2. Semi-formal wear - Wikipedia

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    Semi-formal wear or half dress is a grouping of dress codes indicating the sort of clothes worn to events with a level of formality between informal wear and formal wear.In the modern era, [when?] the typical interpretation for men is black tie for evening wear and black lounge suit for day wear, corresponded by either a pant suit or an evening gown for women.

  3. Western dress codes - Wikipedia

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    Formal wear i.e. "Full dress" Morning dress: White tie: Trouser suit or skirt with blazer Ball gown: Full dress uniform: Ceremonial dress, religious clothing, folk costumes, orders and medals, etc. Semi-formal wear i.e. "Half dress" Black lounge suit: Black tie: Evening gown: Mess dress uniform: Informal wear i.e. "Undress" Suit: Cocktail dress ...

  4. Morning dress - Wikipedia

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    Debrett's states, that morning dress should not be specified as the dress code for events starting after 6 p.m. If a formal event will commence at or after 6 p.m., a white tie should be specified instead. [1] [6] The semi-formal daytime counterpart of this code is the black lounge suit. [7] [8]

  5. Black tie - Wikipedia

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    The dinner suit is a black, midnight blue or white two- or three-piece suit, distinguished by satin or grosgrain jacket lapels and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers. It is worn with a white dress shirt with standing or turndown collar and link cuffs , a black bow tie , typically an evening waistcoat or a cummerbund , and black ...

  6. Suit - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wearing business wear suits as per their gender, 2016. The word suit derives from the French suite, [3] meaning "following," from some Late Latin derivative form of the Latin verb sequor = "I follow," because the component garments (jacket and trousers and waistcoat) follow each other and have the same cloth and ...

  7. Formal wear - Wikipedia

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    Some white tie functions also request that the women wear long gloves past the elbow. Formal wear being the most formal dress code, it is followed by semi-formal wear, equivalently based around daytime black lounge suit, and evening black tie (dinner suit/tuxedo), and evening gown for women.