These days, it is also perfectly acceptable to wear garden-party dresses to more formal affairs.

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Traditionally, a formal, summer garden-party dress did two things: it looked light and uplifting, while keeping all the bits one might generally expose to the sun covered.

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It's a useful starting point in the garden-party dress discussion, because it signifies the dramatic turnaround that has occurred in the past 10 years in terms of demure summer dressing.

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It's completely different from Rachel Antonoff's garden party-themed presentation Sunday, in which Vujevic's prop was a badminton racket, or the Christine Alcalay presentation earlier that day, which was staged in a 1, 000-square-foot studio in an office building.

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Over the next three days there will be more - a White House garden party with hundreds of guests, a banquet with still more and even a 19 gun salute.

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Rinehart was at the garden party at Government House, wearing a wide-brimmed hat.

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After the screening, the stars are going to a glittering after-show party at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

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But the majority are not overly thrilling and anyone hoping to see scenes left out of the film such as the Deathday party or the "de-gnoming" in the Weasleys garden, may feel dissatisfied.

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Havel began co-writing plays during his military service in the 1950s and his first solo play, The Garden Party, was staged in 1963.

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Indeed, just hours after his would-be assassin had been wrestled to the ground, the French head of state was hosting a garden party for the public, on a packed Elysee Palace lawn, grabbing the microphone like a seasoned compere.

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