So...we have two invitations to separate events in the month of March...perfect opportunity to wear the kilt...

...the one is an architecture prize...this'll be nothing new since I've attended some of the past events that this organization has held and have switched off between kilted and "saxon" formal dress.

The invite for the other is where the ambiguity occurs...

"Black or White Tie (optional)"

Okay...first, white tie? Is this a State Dinner? Will the President of France be present? And then, optional? ...that's code for "we don't care...just wear the suit you went to work in today...any old schmotta will do" in these here parts. Okay...this is on a Friday evening but you don't have time to run home and change or change at the office?

So you see why I'm kinda making the scrunched up "wha' the hell?" face while I'm reading this invitation. I mean nothing surprises me around here....I went to a matinee at the opera a few weeks ago and there was a contingent there wearing black tie at two in the afternoon...I'm not running around handing out yellow tickets for blatant dress violations but I sort of thought that there were some, let us say, "guidelines" that we try to stick to?

I'm just sayin'....

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