Wearing a dress shirt and tie on a general date, yay or nay? (wife, women)

[FreshFresh]

For a general date meaning eating out at a restaurant.

My wardrobe is mostly filled with shirts and ties. I'm used to either dressing up professionally. Is a shirt and tie fine for a date?

[Ruth4Truth]

Depends on the date. Tell us more. Are you going out to dinner at a nice place? The symphony? If not, no. Not fine.

[Just A Guy]

First date? Probably not.

[Checkered24]

I would think it would depend on where your going on the date. Tie at a fancy restaurant, stage show, etc, then great. Tie at Buffalo Wild Wings, maybe not (although timing plays a roll too, a date scheduled after work during say a happy hour may warrant one since it was the attire of the day, vs a midday Saturday event).

[Ruth4Truth]

OP, if you're lost without your dress shirt and sport coat, go without the tie. Simple. Combine that with jeans, depending on the venue.

[michael_atw]

I notify my date I am dressing up.

Most women want to dress up; they're used to schmucks these days. You might blow her mind without even stepping out of the car.

[Checkered24]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

OP, if you're lost without your dress shirt and sport coat, go without the tie. Simple. Combine that with jeans, depending on the venue.

Good advice.

OP, dress shirts with some patterns, checkered ones for instance, can easily be worn as sport shirts with jeans, kakhis, etc, and look a little more casual than a full shirt and tie appearance.

I have a lot of shirt and tie combos from my days working in management (which thankfully are over), but do tend to wear the shirts without the ties all the time. Solids or patterns will work, but the patterns tend to look a bit better IMO judging on my wife's reaction to them if we go somewhere nice.

If you need more casual than that, you could invest in a couple nice polos too, and where them with jeans or khakis.

[thinkalot]

Don't wear a tie without a jacket or you will look like a high school English teacher.

Jeans, jacket, no tie.

[FreshFresh]

I don't have a single pair of jeans. I don't like the way I look jeans. I'm very thin, however.

I guess I can wear a dress shirt (tucked in) with some khakis

[Just A Guy]

Originally Posted by FreshFresh

I don't have a single pair of jeans. I don't like the way I look jeans. I'm very thin, however.

I guess I can wear a dress shirt (tucked in) with some khakis

How old are you? What do your guy friends wear on dates? What do the women you know like guys to wear on dates?