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.