The mermaid's intricate tresses, crowned with a garland of flowers, flow back to meet up with her finely wrought fish tail and the pipe's amber stem.

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Bright colors were showstoppers too at Juan Carlos Obando whose show featured a knee-length, long sleeve dress in hot pink and a chartreuse halter gown with a fish tail hem.

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In fact, serving fish with the head and tail intact is thought to bring in a good beginning and end to the year.

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Dr Fril has used this knowledge to create a FrenchFlag fish, with a blue head, a white body and a red tail, and hopes to follow it soon with one depicting the stars and stripes.

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He likes the fish smoked or boiled in milk and water and dipped in butter, which can taste like lobster tail.

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