Evening Dress

Evening dress may refer to:

  • Evening gown, a woman's dress worn for formal occasions and evening events.
  • White tie, the most formal civilian dress code in Western fashion
  • Black tie, a semi-formal dress code for evening events and social functions in Western fashion
  • Mess dress, the formal evening dress worn in the mess or at other formal occasions by military personnel

Famous quotes containing the words evening and/or dress:

    “The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)