Will I feel over dressed?

[LCoulter]

After reading another thread, it sounds like less people are dressing up for formal night. Will DH and I feel over dressed if we wear formal wear on formal night. It doesn't bother me if others choose not to but if we are pretty much the only ones, maybe I should return the dress.

If it makes a difference, we have early seating and I don't want late seating. DH plans to wear a suit and tie and I have a floor length sheath dress with a sequin pattern over the entire dress in navy blue.

 

[dcassetta]

After reading another thread, it sounds like less people are dressing up for formal night. Will DH and I feel over dressed if we wear formal wear on formal night. It doesn't bother me if others choose not to but if we are pretty much the only ones, maybe I should return the dress.

If it makes a difference, we have early seating and I don't want late seating. DH plans to wear a suit and tie and I have a floor length sheath dress with a sequin pattern over the entire dress in navy blue.

Many people do dress for formal night. You will be able to get some great pictures!

 

[hanscarlet]

Last week was our first formal night in 2 years and I felt under-dressed honestly and I wore a nice cocktail dress...

 

[Maggie'sMom]

You will see a wide variety of attire on formal night. There will be plenty of people dressed to the nines and you won't feel overdressed. But there will be some people that choose less formal attire, or even downright casual clothes.

We are going to be on the Fantasy in a couple weeks. On our past Fantasy cruise, we dressed formal. But on this cruise, the family we are traveling with did not want to dress formal. So I am planning to wear a very nice, black cocktail dress, but not full formal attire. And it won't bother me that I'm not as dressed up as others because I'll be dressed to fit in better with our travel companions and make them not feel out of place. And besides, the formal gown I wore last time required me to wear very high heels. I'm petite and even petite formal gowns can be a bit too long if I'm not in heels. I'm not good in really high heels and almost killed myself a few times trying to navigate in those things. So I'm more than happy to wear a calf length dress and slip on heels of a more reasonable height.

 

[professorandmom]

hey, my daughter and I wore beautiful tiaras and long dresses...it was amazing, fun, and I really didn't care what others wore...after all, Minnie and Micky were well-dressed
You'll see T-shirts, shorts and tuxes...wear what you want

 

[starvenger]

After reading another thread, it sounds like less people are dressing up for formal night. Will DH and I feel over dressed if we wear formal wear on formal night. It doesn't bother me if others choose not to but if we are pretty much the only ones, maybe I should return the dress.

If it makes a difference, we have early seating and I don't want late seating. DH plans to wear a suit and tie and I have a floor length sheath dress with a sequin pattern over the entire dress in navy blue.

You won't be the only ones for sure. Dress up, own it and enjoy!

 

[apathetic]

It's a myth that nobody dresses up on formal night. I would say over 90% of the people have dressed up on formal night on our cruises. The other 10% were mainly khakis and polo. On less than 7 night cruises, they have 'optional dress up' night and it probably is more about 60-70% of people in formal attire, but most everyone else is slacks, shirt w/tie & dresses for women. For some reason when people see 1 person not in formal attire, they relay that as hardly anybody dresses up. I've not found that to be reality.

 

[Sehsun]

You will not feel over-dressed. DH and I saw more passengers than not wearing formal wear on formal nights. We do dress up for formal nights. It is fun, and you get nice pictures.

 

[blabadie]

Our family is planning on dressing up for formal night. DH in suit, daughters in nice dresses, me in either a dressy cocktail dress or a long gown. We like to dress up and are looking forward to it.

 

[FigmentSpark]

My boys (DH included) didn't want to dress up. I made the boys where nice pants (khakis) and golf shirts. DH didn't wear a jacket, but he did wear a shirt and tie, as well as dress shoes. My boys had sneakers on, but they were all black, so they didn't really show in the photos. I wore a dressy (think N.Y. Eve) pants and a dressy top and low heels. I didn't feel under or over dressed, but there were definitely many families better dressed than we were and a few that were more casual than we were. We got great photos. That's all that mattered to me (got my money's worth, heh).

 

[dad of 3 addicted to DCL]

I wear a tux on formal night, DW a gown and we're not the only ones. Go for it. It's a *very* expensive date night!

 

[KashasMom]

Wear what makes YOU happy! Take lots of photos and enjoy!

 

[YawningDodo]

I went kind of mid-range on formal night, and I seem to recall a lot of women were at least in dresses (I was, even though I'm in the "don't really dress up much" contingent). I think you'll see a pretty wide range, but I think it weighs more toward people at least making some effort that evening than not at all. Also, I bet if you wait in line and do the nice backdrop photos you'll see a lot more people in dressy clothes than if you scoot straight to the MDR, so that might help avoid feeling out of place.

Wear what makes YOU happy! Take lots of photos and enjoy!

This, tbh.

 

[dvcdisney]

Like everyone says, there are lots of people dressed in formal or semi formal wear. There are also lots of people who just wear nice clothing for formal night.

My daughter likes dressing up in formal wear and she wears it during both formal and semi formal as well as a few other times. My son and husband has a nice dress shirt with dress pants that they wear for both semi and formal nights and I have a nice dress for both nights. But I wouldn't consider them formal wear and not much more formal than our regular dinner clothes which are dresses for my daughter and I, and shirt and pants for my husband and son. Sometimes, my son prefers to wear a vest instead of a tie for the formal wear and it looks fine.

I guess my point is wear what you'd like, we've never felt over dressed or under dressed on any night. There has always been a range of dressing styles.

 

[MichelleCanada]

I'm with everyone else - where what you want to wear and you will not be out of place. When we were on our cruise last year we saw it all - shorts to formal dresses and suits!

 

[Tulip2796]

Definitely wear what you want. On our 7-night we didn't dress up at all on formal night. We were all wearing shorts. I didn't feel underdressed, I felt nothing. There were people in tuxes, people in shorts and those in between. I know on that vacation, our 1st in was while, the last thing I wanted to do was dress up. I wanted no part of it. We all always showered and changed our clothing before dinner but I was all about comfort. This time around I think we're dressing up but not full-length gown, no tuxes.

 

[Dug720]

Hey, as long as you’re not breaking any rules, you do you. If it makes you happy, do it. Don’t be so wrapped up in what others think or do.

 

[ladyofthetramp]

Just to echo everyone here-do what makes you happy. I am pretty old school in that I dress every night for dinner. Some nights more formal than others. Way long ago, on our honeymoon in Bermuda, it was required in the dinning room that you were dressed-jacket and tie for men, dresses for women. It was lovely. Things are more casual now, but I enjoy being more formally dressed in the dining rooms. Everyone does as they like and it rarely turns a head due to how formal or casual you are dressed.

 

[iZon]

Two weeks ago on Fantasy I would say half wore suits if that. I’ve never had another gentleman at our table wear a suit but I don’t care. Also noticed Palo dinner it was mostly shirts. (And muscle shirts on regular MDR nights. Yuck).

I would agree that the dress code is really slipping. I hope people who want to dress up keeping doing so and don’t stop just to appease the others. It can be a domino effect.

 

[keaster]

For formal night we don't go full tuxedo/ball gone...but DH does wear a suit and I usually go with a nice cocktail dress. We like having a night to dress up a bit!