All Entries Tagged With: "dress code"

Another Dress Code Nightmare

Yesterday Miss Mussel explored a tip of the orchestra dress code iceberg. Today’s thoughts centre around what conductors of the female persuasion are to wear. Essentially, it’s a trap, a wardrobe black hole of sorts.
The female equivalent of tails is an evening dress. Simple enough although likely anxiety causing for the conductress [...]

November 28, 2007 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0

In Praise Of Formality…Or At Least A Decent Tuxedo

There’s been a mild stink on the intertubes of late regarding the dress code for orchestras. The argument is not so much about visual appearance as it is about the relative merit of ritual, a word that seems to have descended into that level of vocabularial purgatory just above curse words along with its [...]

November 27, 2007 | Miss Mussel | Comments 9