A reader asks what to wear for a new season of wedding dress codes.
What is “colorful formal”? I keep seeing it on invitations for events this summer. Where did it come from, and what does it mean I should wear? — Alice, Waban, Mass.
“Colorful formal” is yet another newish dress code term that, like “creative black tie” or “razzle-dazzle” or “mountain elegant,” actually makes the recipient of such an invitation want to rip it into little shreds and stomp on them.
While such purportedly fun reinventions are meant, in theory, to free the imagination to romp happily in the fields of your closet, they simply cause more headaches, and the
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