Even their long-sleeved, high-shouldered evening dresses are cut high at the ankle to show off the shoes.

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These were followed by long evening dresses with sinewy fluid silhouettes.

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The label is run by a 23-year-old Chinese designer known for his made-to-measure evening dresses, which have been scooped up by Goldie Hawn and Marcia Gay Harden.

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Calvin Klein was an early adopter, using grey in everything from evening dresses to boxer shorts, and this season, Michael Michael Kors contains a good deal of sexy grey matter.

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There were long dresses and evening gowns too, most of them ruffled like glamorized versions of flamenco or tango dresses.

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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.

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While some executive women stick to conservative black dresses for evening and navy, gray or black suits for work, Lebenthal's style is more daring and eclectic.

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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.

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There's also an engaging image of the rooftop bar at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, where, based on the sparse crowd, long shadows and two female servers in little black dresses chatting idly, the evening cocktail hour is just getting going.

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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.

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