The dress standard for males in the Long Room and Members Dining Room is a lounge suit or tailored jacket, shirt, tie, slacks and dress shoes. Females are expected to dress to a similar standard.
Please note that jackets may be removed during the summer months. National costume and religious requirements such as a clerical collar are acceptable.
For your guidance, some unacceptable items of clothing in the Long Room and Members Dining Room include:
Not Acceptable: Men
- Any form of sports shoe such as joggers, track shoes and runners.
- Sandals, thongs, dilapidated footwear, scuffs or slippers.
- Any shoes without socks.
- Jeans, cargo pants or non-tailored pants.
- Open-neck shirts or shirts without collars.
- Parkas, duffle coats, wind-breakers, tracksuit tops, golf and yachting weatherproofs, waist-length jackets including bomber jackets, denim jackets, zippered jackets, anoraks and driz-a-bones.
- Safari suits.
- Hats, caps and any other headwear unless part of national or religious dress.
- Pullovers or cardigans (without a jacket), rugby tops and football guernseys, even if wearing a tie.
Not Acceptable: Women
- Any form of sports shoe, joggers, track shoes, runners, slippers, thongs, scuffs, casual sandals and dilapidated footwear.
- Tank tops.
- Jeans, cargo pants and non-tailored pants.
- Pants tucked into socks and footwear.
- "Leggings" or shorts.
- Parkas, duffle coats, denim jackets, wind-breakers, golf and yachting weatherproofs, anoraks and bomber jackets.
- Tops or dresses showing bare midriff.
- Note: Footless tights acceptable if suitable dress worn over the top.
Click here to download examples of acceptable and not acceptable attire in the Long Room and Members Dining Room.