Dress codes: What do 'black tie' and 'cocktail lounge' really mean?
Nick Tobias receives invitations to myriad events but one he won't forget in a hurry was to a gala fundraising dinner at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2016. In celebration of the exhibition Nude: art from the Tate collection, its dress code was "bare as you dare".
"It was pretty challenging," laughs the Sydney architect. "In the end I decided to go nude with a suit, so I wore a suit but with nothing underneath."
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