EVENING DRESS.
Men. Evening dress should be worn on all formal occasions, consisting of the swallow- tail coat of black material, made in the prevailing fashion, with waistcoat and trousers of the same material; or a white vest may be worn.
The linen must be white. Studs or shirt- buttons may be worn, according to fashion. The collar should be high, and the cravat white. Low patent-leather shoes and white kid gloves complete the costume.
Evening dress should be worn at all formal functions after six o'clock—as, balls, dinners, suppers, receptions, germans, formal stag parties, theatre, opera, and fashionable evening calls where women are present.
The phrase, "evening dress," is now used
in place of full dress.
A Tuxedo should never be worn when
women are present.
See also TUXEDO. CLERGYMAN—EVENING
DRESS.
WEDDINGS, EVENING. Full evening dress is worn by the groom and ushers. Guests are likewise in evening dress.
CLERGYMAN. Custom permits a clergyman to wear his clerical dress at all functions where other men wear evening dress, or he may wear evening dress.
EVENING RECEPTIONS. The etiquette is the same as for an afternoon tea (formal), save that no cards are left by the guests, and that they wear evening dress.
See AFTERNOON TEAS (FORMAL).
FACSIMILE CARDS, engraved, are no longer used.
FAMILY OF BRIDE. The family, except the father, leave the house first, then the bridesmaids, the maid of honor with the mother, and last the bride with her father or nearest male relative. At church the family is seated by the ushers.
At the conclusion of the ceremony they are the first to be escorted from their pew and to take their carriage for the wedding reception or breakfast.
WEDDING BREAKFAST. The bride's father or her nearest male relative takes in the groom's mother, and the bride's mother, as hostess, is taken in by the groom's father.
WEDDING RECEPTION. The parents of both bride and groom stand up with the married couple, and are introduced to the guests.
FAMILY OF GROOM. At the church the family and relatives of the groom are seated on one side, while the family of the bride and her relatives are seated on the other.
WEDDING BREAKFAST. The groom's mother is taken in by the bride's father, and the groom's father takes in the bride's mother, who, acting as hostess, comes last.
WEDDING RECEPTION. The parents of both bride and groom stand up with the married couple, and are introduced to the guests.
FAREWELL BACHELOR DINNER. See BACHELOR'S FAREWELL
DINNERS.
FAREWELL BRIDAL LUNCHEON. See BRIDE—FAREWELL
LUNCHEON.