What Does Casual Nice Dress Mean

These days you can dress jeans up and make them almost formal.

What does casual nice dress mean. The entire dressy casual attire is crazy to me. Business casual means nice khakis or nice slacks with a nice button down shirt. You can wear anything that looks nice.

I opted to wear a nice dark pair of jeans a sequin tank with a cardigan and a nice pair of heels. The dress etiquette guide at emily post suggests wearing a darker colored business suit and tie vest optional or a little black cocktail dress or a long dressy skirt with a nice top. Casual basically means whatever you d like as long as it s event appropriate like business casual casual dress is dictated in part by the nature of the event.

It doesn t have to be a white dress shirt it could be colored but nothing too out there like hawaiian. This dress code calls for a just slightly dressier version of your most casual look. But casual attire offers a much wider range of possibilities than business casual attire.

I consider this dressy casual. You can add a sport jacket if you want but it s not necessary and a tie is too much for this look. Either you are dressy or you are casual.