fashion-forward gowns and lavish accessories
During our elementary-school days, when we lived at 110th and the Drive, there was usually a choose-up game of some kind going on in the afternoon, either on the side streets (stickball, roller-skate hockey) or, more often, on a patch of grass, a fair-sized dog run, near the statue of Kossuth, on Riverside Drive (football or soccer)
(Which is to say, respect the actual temperature, not just the general seasonal trend.) Of course, winter parties usually see flagrant exceptions to, or total abandonment of these little rules: One invitation to a Winter Wonderland, and its bandage dresses as far as the eye can see, like a Miami nightclub landed in snowbound New York
The expected dress code often ranges from Business Professional to formal Business Casual