SCON (Spit Coffee Out Nose, according to Bella Online). I stand corrected, but I still think it’s ridiculous. Apparently, semi-casual is an actual dress code, albeit in the American context. *sigh* According to Lisa Plancich, Bella Online’s Etiquette Editor:
Where semi-formal is a step down from formal, semi-casual is a step up from casual.
That, my friends, is the end result of the mass confusion between “casual” and “leisure“. Casual, as a dress code, has never meant “what one would wear fishing”.
All I can say is “ugh”. And what I’ve said before (links are to pictures of what myself and others have worn to this annual semi-casual event):
- year one: I’m going to a nice dinner tonight, but I don’t get to wear my nice dress because it’s semi casual (which I should have realized means black jeans, white tennis shoes, and a western shirt – for a guy)
- year two: since western shirts are kinda costumy, semi-casual can be too!
- year three: any opportunity to get dressed beyond “just get dressed” can be used as therapy
year four: 
Sufficiently costumy, yes?
No real comment about our messed up dress codes, but I love your pants. 🙂
I’m not loving the dressy cami top over the tee, it looks a little mid-1990s to me. I think the silver and white look really great with your colouring, though… very chic and understated.
Thanks Janel!
Emily – it’s actually a short-sleeved button-front shirt. I saw a combination like that on a British model recently, and the idea stuck with me. It was fun for the evening, and my daughter thinks I should wear it to see her in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, but it probably won’t be a look I will expand too much on. Thanks for your honesty! I did especially like the color combo; since I like white, but it’s a bit draining by itself, white and metallic or white and khaki, I think, are the way for me to go. 🙂