For a majority of conference, your comfort is our goal.  Recommended attire for conference is casual (nice shirts or jeans perfectly acceptable) with three exceptions.

• Community Service Project:  We recommend bringing an old shirt and pair of jeans to wear for the service project.  This is a great time to wear your conference t-shirt (but note you will not be allowed to wear it to State's Night Out). 
• State's Night Out:  Immediately following the service project, we will leave for the Central Business District/French Quarter (CBD/FQ) for State's Night Out in New Orleans.  You may want to bring clothes to change into before leaving the busses for State's Night Out.  The coach busses will have bathrooms for you to change in and more than likely you could change at the service project, but we recommend coordinating your outfit.  The CBD/FQ is pretty casual, especially the time of year we will be visiting.  If you are planning to eat at one of New Orleans' finer restaurants, you may want to plan accordingly, however.  Closer to conference, we will provide a list of recommended restaurants and make any attire notes so that you and your club/state can better plan.  Regardless of your plans for State's Night Out, you WILL NOT be allowed to wear any merchandise bearing the 4-H logo while visiting the CBD/FQ.  We want you to have a great time, however, you are in a highly public and visible place and we do not want to take the chance that a few "bad apples" would jeopardize the 4-H name.  (A good analogy would be that you wouldn't wear your Greek letters to similar events, so we won't wear the 4-H logo, either). This is the only requirement for attire at conference.  You're more than welcome to wear 4-H merchandise at any other time, of course!
• Closing Assembly/Banquet:  Business Casual/Semi-Formal Attire recommended.  Ladies:  Business suits, dresses/skirts, blouses, etc.  Men:  Dress shirt, slacks, tie/suit optional.    Dress for the Dance/Clover Ball:  Casual (or just dress down your banquet outfit). 

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