Four experts explain how to interpret these fashion guidelines.

There was a time when wearing some form of tailoring to work—a full suit, dress shirt, and tie, or a business casual look—was standard. While those rules still apply certain places, the shift toward ...

Picture this: you’re invited to a relaxed, low-key wedding. You’re excited to celebrate the nuptials until you scan the invitation and see two terrifying words. Smart. Casual. Smart casual seems like ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In a sense, "smart casual"sounds like an oxymoron. If you're dressing smart, you're not dressing casual, ...

All it takes is pair of jeans and a little creativity. Do you wear a dress and heels? Can you get by in just jeans and a top? Can you wear sneakers? It’s a sartorial minefield. The very first mention ...

Often considered the most elusive code for men to pin down and definitively describe, the smart casual dress is often misunderstood, sometimes overplayed, but never resolved to obsolescence. Primarily ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Let's just say it: I love a dress code. Give me an absurdly specific set of sartorial regulations and ...

Smart-casual is otherwise known as the middle ground between jeans and a t-shirt and a full suit. It could be perfectly described as a leisure Friday, now the term means a new menswear dress code.

Very excited. Off to a fundraiser tomorrow night. It’s the kind of thing Liz Hurley and Jemima Khan do all the time, though this one is taking place in a local gastro-pub sadly, at Blenheim Palace.

As Dan Ahwa wrote for this publication in 2023, “smart-casual is basically code for ‘jeans are fine’”. “Smart-casual is much ...