Children in black tie

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

When an invitation says 'black tie' how should one dress a child? Is an ordinary suit appropriate, or should he wear some sort of waistcoat/bow tie combination?

Comments

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

If she won't let you, we can have a dinner party of that nature :)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That sounds ever so much more appealing in a Montreal summer than it would have when I still lived in Cambridge, on environmental comfort grounds. 30 C with a further eight degrees-equivalent of humidity is like walking through an endless series of hot wet blankets trailing from san endless series of washing lines.

[ Social comfort grounds... goodness knows. Though I suppose if I could cope with damned_colonial's swimsuits-until-10 outdoor hot-tub in the snow party, I could cope with such a dinner party. Anything for a weird life. ]

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Cambridge summer is often rather too hot for me. I'm not very good at wearing clothes a lot of the time, though, so I should be able to cope,socially.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

In the event of it becoming relevant on my next pass through Cambridge, which won't alas be this year, I shall bear that in mind. I can't stand clothes, and the half of the year here when it is hot enough not to need to wear them indoors is a great godsend to me; alas, papersky overheats easily, and is mostly more comfortable in winter. Still, it's not as if there's anywhere else in the world we'd each get half a year of comfort, and winter that is sunny and -20 a great deal of the time and grey and wet only occasionally is a lot better for both of us than the Land Where Water Melts.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Cambridge summer is always too hot for me. But I guess people would prefer me to wear clothes.