Wedding season is every season, and that means understanding the rules of cocktail attire is critical all throughout the year – especially when there is a strict dress code. It's a familiar ...

Between holiday parties and wedding season, most of the invitations in your inbox will probably ask for “cocktail attire”—which is really just a fancy way of saying formal, but not too formal.

From traditional black-tie weddings to whimsical garden parties, we asked experts to help us break down what to wear.

41% of respondents were able to correctly identify “white tie,” and a dismal 17% correctly picked out cocktail attire. SWNS However, when it comes to dressing down, men were all over it. Eighty-three ...

Wedding season is every season, and that means understanding the rules of cocktail attire is critical all throughout the year – especially when there is a strict dress code. It’s a familiar scenario: ...