Morning dress

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Morning dress, also known as formal day dress, is the formal Western dress code for day attire, consisting chiefly of a morning coat, waistcoat, and formal trousers for men, and an appropriate gown for women. The correct hat would be a formal top hat, or if on less spacious audience settings, optionally a collapsible equivalent opera hat. Men may also wear a popular variant, where all parts (morning coat or waistcoat, and trousers) are the same colour and material, often grey, and usually called "morning suit" or "morning grey" to distinguish it; considered properly appropriate only to festive functions, such as summer weddings and horse races, which consequently makes it slightly less formal. Debrett's states that morning dress should not be specified as the dress code for events starting after 18:00 (6:00 p.m.). If a formal event will commence at or after 18:00, white tie should be specified instead. The semi-formal daytime counterpart of this code is the black lounge suit. Morning dress...

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