Подскажите, пожалуйста, как вы понимаете смысл следюущего предложения:

There is a dress code - black tie, black or glamorous.

В чем, в итоге, должны прийти дамы и господа? Важен ли цвет?

Всем заранее спасибо.

вот какая проблема: то, что по-английски называется dinner jacket (or tuxedo in AmE) по-русски привыкли называть смокингом. ОК. Но как тогда по-русски назвать то, что по-англйски наывается smoking jacket (см. картинку)?... Словарное "домашняя куртка" как-то не того... не отражает, по-моему.... Такой пиджак хоть и менее формален, чем смокинг, однако может быть надет "к ужину"... особенно в доме близких друзей/родственников.... Какие будут предложения?

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Занимательно:

According to legend, it was back on this date in 1886 (or maybe it was a little bit later) that one Griswold Lorillard (together with his young friends) broke with upper crust tradition. The group of young bucks showed up to dinner in the wealthy resort community of Tuxedo Park, New York wearing not the expected longtailed dinner jackets but instead dress jackets without tails.

The style caught on, and the daring new evening jacket was dubbed a tuxedo after its birthplace. Eventually, tuxedo became shorthand for the entire outfit of men's semiformal evening wear, followed (decades later) by black-tie and white-tie. For those not up on their formal evening wear, black-tie includes a black tuxedo as well as a black tie, and white-tie refers to an outfit with a tailcoat and a white tie.

But back to the tuxedo and the question of how Tuxedo Park came by that name. We can thank the Native Americans. The Delaware of North America had three totems: the turkey, the turtle, and the wolf. The Delaware word for the wolf totem was p'tuksite; when 18th century Europeans settled in southeastern New York, they borrowed an anglicized version of that word—Tuxedo—as the name for their village. http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?101007

Вообще, прикольно, конечно: black or glamorous! Хост юморит:) Так что, не напрягайтесь:)

A short coat with silk facings (usually grosgrain or satin), called the dinner jacket
Trousers with silk braids matching the lapels
A black cummerbund or low-cut waistcoat
A white dress shirt with either a marcella (piqué cotton), stiff, or pleated front
A black silk bow tie
Black dress socks, usually silk
Black shoes in patent or highly polished leather, or patent leather court shoes
more here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tie