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"Unlike other dress codes, black-tie-optional wedding attire allows guests to go all out with a black-tie look or opt for a more casual suit," says Jackson

Is it acceptable for men to wear a colored dress shirt instead of white to a black-tie or formal event

But I do not need shoes with more contrast, per this article

Since I don't have $400 to drop of the thin Gucci belt and doubt neither do you, I figured a $15 splurge from Target would do

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Like rhetoricians, seventeenth-century artists were bound by rules and expectations for proper decorum, even in matters of dress