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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So they wrote on the invitation "coat and tie"?

I really don't know what that means, even after googling.  If I'm wearing a cocktail dress, my husband's wearing a suit. If husband is wearing a sport coat, I'm wearing a dress appropriate for church (back in olden times when folks dressed for church)

In my mind.. some church dresses can go to cocktails, but fancy cocktail dresses aren't appropriate for church.  These are old fashioned rules. But there you go.

All country clubs are not the same.[/quote]

Oh come on. You just want to be difficult, given your subsequent description. Coat and tie means sport coat and tie (with slacks and shirt). It means slightly more casual than suit, where the bottom needs to match the top. Women will wear the precise level of fancy or non-fancy cocktail dress that they please.

Don't make this more complicated than it needs to be. Instead of desperately trying to uphold ridiculously narrow protocols of dress, you can allow that guests will arrive in a variety of perfectly acceptable versions of the dress code. The "old-fashioned" rules only exist when the community is small and culturally homogeneous. These days, don't even go there.
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