Way to dress during performance (7)
I believe the answer is:
routine
'performance' is the definition.
(I know that routine is a type of performance)
'way to dress during' is the wordplay.
'way' becomes 'e' (Compass direction - East).
'to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'dress' becomes 'rout' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'during' becomes 'in' (e.g. during February means in February).
'rout'+'in'='routin'
'e' after 'routin' is 'ROUTINE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for routine that I've seen before include "Procedure regularly followed" , "Fixed sequence of actions" , "Regularly performed" , "Unvarying programme" , "The daily round" .)