Alongside the performances, the Village Theater at Cherry Hill runs fine art exhibitions. An opening is one of the harder invitations a man gets: standing for two hours, a drink in one hand, moving between conversations, in a room where the clothes range from very considered to entirely indifferent and both are correct.
What the room actually rewards
Looking like you dressed on purpose, at any level of formality. The failure mode is not being under-dressed. It’s being accidentally dressed, which reads as not having noticed there was an event.
The reliable answer
A jacket, no tie, over a shirt with a collar that stands by itself. It sits comfortably between the two extremes in the room and requires no confidence to carry off.
And it has to work with one hand occupied
Which means pockets that will take a phone without sagging and a jacket that hangs correctly when it’s open, since it will be open all night. Select suits on our floor sell as separates, so a jacket like that can be bought deliberately, and Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, makes sure the collar sits flat when it’s unbuttoned.
Also for Canton: The Parent Who Goes to Three Graduations in Four Years. More on style consulting, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
