There were long dresses and evening gowns too, most of them ruffled like glamorized versions of flamenco or tango dresses.
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Maintaining some of its glamour, the car-free main shopping street of Via Matteotti is lined with upscale boutiques selling furs, designer handbags and evening gowns.
Globalization is certainly giving Indian women options outside the sari, forcing it to share wardrobe space with cocktail dresses, evening gowns and corporate pant-suits.
Thus, her collection was filled with many beaded cocktail numbers and elongated evening gowns in pale blues, lilacs and greens plus pops of oranges.
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She launched her first bridal collection in 1996 and today, her atelier also produces ready-to-wear evening gowns, linens and tableware, fine paper and home fragrances.
Of course, lingerie sales are a relatively small part of the vintage market because the prices are so much less than cocktail dresses and evening gowns, Raymond says.
At Chocheng, where Lebenthal has shopped for clothes for several evening events, her favorites included satin evening gowns and a black-and-white pepper tweed pantsuit, which she singled out as perfect for the office.
Beemer thinks upscale chains will discount their jewelry and watches by 20% or more, while a dearth of holiday parties will crimp demand for evening gowns, leading to the biggest Christmas sales in two decades.
"There's not many other events where they all accept the invitation and are happy to parade one after the other, modeling in their swimsuits and evening gowns hoping to be amongst the finalists, " she said.
The bidding proceeded briskly throughout the evening as two professional models in floor length black evening gowns strode out onto a catwalk at the front of the room and paraded Barkin's jewelry for the crowd.
Buckingham Palace has just put on the largest-ever exhibition of its main occupant's evening gowns and personal jewelry, featuring everything from figure-hugging dresses from her heyday in the 1940 to the more decorous outfits of the present.
Most of the people that attend the Sci-Tech don't go down the Rodeo Drive and get free gowns to wear for the evening.
Lebenthal particularly liked Herrera's rich, jewel-tone color palette and said she coveted a silver satin evening gown which she felt was a good statement piece, favoring it more than the bronze and blue gowns also shown.
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