When the Dress Code Calls For: Cocktail Attire

Cocktail attire doesn’t mean wearing the sexy LBD you’d normally reserve for a raunchy night of downing mix-drinks with the girls. “You can look sexy and flirty, but you don’t want to look like you’re on your way to the night club,” explains Leonard. Naylor sees the ‘cocktail attire’ stamp as a time to have fun with a printed frock–but be wary of looking too formal or too casual: “It’s perfectly acceptable to wear a floral-patterned tea-length cocktail dress; just be sure [it isn't too] ‘look at me.’ Go for subtlety in any pattern you wear.”

We recommend: Dress, Alexia Admor; Heels, Steve Madden; Clutch, TopShop; Bracelet, Eliot Danori.