So, what makes a gala fund-raiser "not so gala?"

According to National Museum of Commercial Aviation Executive Director Grant Wainscott, it is a simple matter of discouraging neckties, and encouraging laid-back attire. It is somewhat like the way a person might dress if he, or she, were going on a long flight, across the country, or across the ocean.

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