GENTLE READER: Strange, isn’t it, that when formal clothes are called for, men are often now more dressed up than women? Not counting the Oscars, of course. Miss Manners has noticed this in ...

GENTLE READER: Strange, isn’t it, that when formal clothes are called for, men are often now more dressed up than women? Not counting the Oscars, of course. Miss Manners has noticed this in ...

Miss Manners herself once managed one carry-on bag to the Wagner festival at Bayreuth — encompassing 10 formal evenings — with one evening dress and a different look every night.

Dear Gentle Reader: Strange, isn’t it, that when formal clothes are called for, men are often now more dressed up than women? Not counting the Oscars, of course. News Roundups.

Miss Manners herself once managed one carry-on bag to the Wagner festival at Bayreuth -- encompassing 10 formal evenings -- with one evening dress and a different look every night.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have had season tickets to the orchestra for a couple of decades. For evening concerts, the orchestra wears white tie, and women soloists wear evening dress.

Beijing residents sought shade and cooled off in canals on Monday as authorities issued the second-highest heat warning for the Chinese capital on one of its hottest days of the year so far.

Seeing somebody wearing a suit or other formal clothes is a rarity [so] schools need to reflect this.' Harder to focus. Head teacher Nichola Chesterton, from Chilthorne Domer Church School near Yeovil ...