What does it mean when an invitation specifies colors?
 

My wife and I received an invitation to a friend's surprise birthday party. At the bottom it says "Colors: Black and White."

I've never seen this before. My wife thinks that it means guest attire is supposed to be in black and white only. This way, people at the party distinguish easily who the host is--they'll be the only ones in something colorful.

I'm like, WTF!? Has anybody ever heard of this?

Help me out. I'm clueless.

either it's formal, or you just need to wear black and white. like the annual white party in the hamptons. guests are required to wear white, just because. but i like your wife's theory. if i have a birthday fest in march, i'm doing that.

it is a formal event with black and white attire. the host will probably also be wearing black and white.

I think everybody will be wearing black and white, except the host who'll wear white and black, so that you can distinguish him

Go dressed up like that

maybe the party licence is substantially cheaper!!!!!!


seriously, thats a terrible wording of formal dress only i reckon!
i had one invite to an afters at a wedding and instead of rsvp on the end it said and if i remember this rightly...

"please call ahead prior to your arrival if you are not going to arrive"

the same invite said "we invite you to the last wedding of our lives, and the first"

man it was a shit invite, we didnt actually go because we didnt even know the people.....

hey! witty!

fuck the system.

wear the loudest hawaiian shirt you can find.

It means asians/hispanics aren't welcome at this party of yours.

Just like La Méthode Cauet :rolleyes:

It means wear an all grey suit and a sign around your neck with a middle figure drawn on it.

Uhh... Are you serious?
It means it's a formal event

How old are you again?
Shouldn't you know that by now?

crypto yr sig is hilarious! i saw that shit while readin gmy daily hop hop news at work and couldnt' stop laughing lol.

that's how I roll
stuntin is a habit

especially the first shot is pure gold, just a second before it happens

it means the party will take place in the negative spectrum OR SOME OTHER JOKE I CANT BE BOTHERED TO MAKE WORK

Let's make this thread a colorfest for the occasion :)

I don't think it means formal. Black tie means formal.

From what I understand, this is kind of a southern thing, especially in the African American community, to state colors you wear to a party in the invitation. According to a black friend of ours, we're simply supposed to wear attire of black and white.

Anyway, this is the average husband of a casual business acquaintance fellow wage-earner of my wife's, and we both don't really give a fuck. It's not like we're going to a gala at the governor's mansion. Wife says if it is formal she's not going that route and we'll show up in our informal rags and they'll just have to deal with it.

But seriously, I don't think it's formal. It's a surprise party. How you gonna get the guest of honor dressed formally and still surprise him?

I'd wear this:

Anyway... should be interesting.

I'll report back after the event and let you know.

This sounds a lot like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Yeah hahaha.

I could TOTALLY imagine gmku as a Larry David type character!

Ha ha. I really do idientify with Larry, actually. But I think I dress a little better, overall.

Think of me as a cross between Larry David and Daniel Craig, and you've got it.

Who's older though?

Who's older? You mean, between me and Larry and Daniel. Larry's oldest, me next, Craig's only around 40, I think. I'm guessing Larry is in his 60s, no?

I like turtles

I don't get it.

& what's a young buck like you doing indoors on such a beautiful Sunday afternoon?

I'm feeling a bit on the emo-thug side
Hungover and I don't have a bitch next to me

Which nevertheless does not explain the turtles bit.

black and white party is next Saturday. I shall report notes and observations.

The world is a very strange place.

eighteen and life

So.... what are you on this afternoon?

there's a boy whos a krishna and he thinks you look pretty

You might think this is humorous...

My wife and I got into a little Larry-Cheryl type spat last evening. I had been going off on this "black and white" thing for a few days. She was getting tired of it. But honestly, as I kept asking her, what if it really does mean formal black tie?

As we're eating our nice dinner last night, I casually bring up the party again, this time wanting to know a little bit more about this guy. We're supposed to bring a gift, even though we don't know the guy at all. We get into a discussion about how it's easier to buy women nothing gifts--you can get bath soaps and such. It's harder for men. Golf? Not every man is a golfer. Booze? Not every man drinks--what if he's a recovering alcoholic? This brings up my wife's comment that she knows he was drunk on at least one occasion when he had to tell his current wife about the kids he had with his previous wife.

ME: Oh, really? That's interesting. He didn't want to tell her he had kids by his previous marriage?

SHE: He'd been keeping it from her while they were dating.

ME: Really? Why? Why would a man hide such a thing?

SHE: Look, I don't know exactly, except that he did, and I guess from what X tells me, there's this thing about black men and their kids?

ME: Black men and their kids? What does that mean?

SHE: You know, there's sort of a cultural thing, where it's a touchy subject, because so many black men have kids like all over the place.

ME: All over the place? Really?

SHE: Yeah, apparently they just shoot em out by the dozens with all their girlfriends.

ME: (VERY amused at this point) No shit!? So like when I meet a black man, I should assume he's got gobs of kids out there that he doesn't want to tell me about? Wow.

SHE: (Starts to say something. Turns color, eyes narrow) That's it. I've had it with you.

ME: What? What! I'm sorry, I was making a joke.

SHE: FUCK you.

ME: Oh, come on. It was a joke. I didn't mean anything by it.

SHE: Oh, and you know what? I've decided I'm going alone. You obviously have issues with this whole thing.

Anyway, about 16 hours of silent hostility ensue. We make up, but wow. It was like Divorceland for a while. I always, ALWAYS say the wrong thing.

^^ he he i get this kind of shit WEEKLY
My wife doesn't always get my shitty sense of humour
and huh sometimes it just wouldn't work and a simple joke turns it all into "divorceland" as you say.
he he
i hate it
funny though

yall fuck afterwords?

^^^it's the whole point crypto
1) pull out a bad joke
2) keep on going with it
3) argue
4) don't speak to other half for a good 4 hours
5) make up
6) make out
7) dirty sex

I'm the best mayne, I did it