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Also known as Дрескод

rules whether explicit or not setting out appropriate manner of dress for a place or event

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Encyclopedic overview

Cannes Film Festival has a dress code that requires men to wear tuxedos and women to wear gowns and high-heeled shoes.

A dress code is a set of rules, often written, with regard to what clothing groups of people must wear. Dress codes are created out of social perceptions and norms, and vary based on purpose, circumstances, and occasions. Different societies and cultures are likely to have different dress codes, Western dress codes being a prominent example.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dress code” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.