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An A-line dress is defined by a fitted bodice that flares gradually from the waist to the hemline, creating a silhouette that mirrors the triangular shape of the letter A

A cocktail dress can work for black tie optional if it is refined and formal, not casual or too short

It also provided a much needed cultural ambiencebased, of necessity, on the fullest amplification of social ceremonyin a region that, as visitors both European and Yankee noted, was conspicuously lacking in other signs of contemporary enlightenment, from orchestras and opera houses to publishing firms and libraries and debating societies, and in which censorship had severed access to all intellectual engagement with the larger issues of the political order

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