Just make sure you don’t stumble on the dress code.What exactly is the difference between black tie and white tie? How long or short should you go with your dress? What style of jacket should you wear ...

Traditional black tie means a black tuxedo (or one in midnight blue—more on that shortly), a black bow tie, a white tuxedo shirt (more on that shortly, too), and black patent leather dress shoes.

Before sports referees donned the zebra stripes we know so well today, many showed up to games in some variation of this spiffy ensemble: white dress shirt and slacks, black bow tie, and white ...