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Related Articles. Semi-formal dress is less formal than black-tie dress but more formal than cocktail attire. A semi-formal dress code is expected for moderately formal events, such as weddings, award ceremonies, bar and bat mitzvahs and a night at the theater.
Once upon a more sartorially inclined time, men regularly attended events at which black tie and white tie were worn. In those more decorous days, formal meant white tie and tails while semi formal referred to dinner clothes, tuxedos and other iterations of black tie.