With festive cheer comes dress codes to wrangle, and the toughest ones to nail can be the classics. What exactly is the difference between black tie and white tie? How long or short should you go ...

Leave your black ties at home because the dress code for "fashion's biggest night" on May 2 is a white-tie affair with an emphasis on Gilded Glamour, per the fine print on Anna Wintour's coveted ...

Most popular in the early 20th century, white-tie was the standard dinner dress for families of a certain status. After World War I, when "informal" dinner jackets and black-tie gained acceptance ...