maxi cocktail dress Freesia Red Formal - US 4 while a flaring mermaid skirt ensures this dress radiates pure elegance Cocktail Maxi Dress for Women

This sleeveless camisole doubles as a small A-line skirt extender and comes with adjustable shoulder straps for a perfect fit

A clean button-down, slim-fit polo, or tailored shirt paired with dark jeans or trousers always works

A velvet or wool-blend wrap in a complementary shade like blush or deep plum provides extra warmth

(Consider this your excuse to get as sartorially weird as you wantbecause if not now, then when?) 9

Bring on the Party

As Freud wrote in his essay, The Uncanny, that experience of the uncanny double occurs when something that we have hitherto regarded as imaginary appears before us in reality, or when a symbol takes over the full functions of the thing it symbolizes. When animal flesh, that slab of meat we throw on the grill with nary a thought to its provenance, is rendered and re-contextualized as a female (and feminist) work of art, it becomes a multivalent symbol, of our own violence against women and animals, of transient flesh, of life and death