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A group of friends up in the very informal town of Bellingham Washington (all fleece-wearing outdoors-people, biologists and climbers, most with multiple children and dogs) throw a "more formal than normal" dinner party every year. Everyone gets very dressed up in thrift-store formals and suits and they sip cocktails and share a sit-down candle-lit dinner together. Some of the women wouldn't be caught dead in a skirt under normal circumstances, but I tell you, everyone looks forward to "more formal than normal" night. Perhaps a sense of humor -and even the absurd - goes a long way in the celebration of formality.