After Dark
Evening dressing sits between two failures: too casual for the room, or so formal it looks hired. These four sit in the middle, and three of them use garments that already work at the office.
La idea
Evening is the one time a wardrobe gets tested on shoes. Everything else can be approximate; the shoe cannot. Two pairs cover almost every night out — black cap-toe oxfords, and one brown pair for the summer.
Everything below is built around one of those two.
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4 looksBlack Tie, Adjacent
A suit jacket, wool trousers and a grenadine tie — formal without a tuxedo.
Formal · Etiqueta · 5 prendas
Dinner at Eight
Blazer, tee, dark denim. The most-used evening formula there is.
Noche · Oficina · 5 prendas
The Winter Overcoat
The coat is the outfit. Everything under it stays out of the way.
Noche · Oficina · 5 prendas
The Summer Wedding
Linen, poplin and stone. Formal enough for the photographs, cool enough for the marquee.
Formal · Oficina · 5 prendas