Originally Posted by
figheadair
Neither-fish-nor-fowl sums up 'semi dress' nicely. Being less tactful one might ask what the point of them is. I guess they are aimed at those who did not grow up with the terms: Casual; Smart Casual (a great military term); Cocktail; Formal etc.
Semi-dress = when one forgot to put on some item of clothing.
My theory is that "semi-dress" sporrans were rapidly cobbled together, and gleaming white hose created, to be hired along with black Prince Charlie coatees. (One question: did the shoe makers start putting extra-long shoestrings on the Ghillies so they could be laced all the way up? My Ghillies don't have laces that long.)
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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