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Cocktail Dresses
Cocktail Dress and Evening Gowns | Woman's short evening dress: a lens about the short dress, often of expensive fabric and semiformal design, worn for an early-evening social occasion such as a cocktail party.
About The Cocktail Dress
A little background on cocktail dresses and the cocktail gown.
A cocktail dress or cocktail gown is a woman's dress worn at cocktail parties, and semi-formal but not black tie occasions. The length of cocktail dresses varies depending on fashion and local custom. The length ranges from just above the knee to touching the ankle. When it is about two inches above the ankle it is called tea length and when it is almost touching the ankle it is called ballerina length, although ballerina length dresses usually fall into the evening gown category. At semi-formal occasions, less elaborate, shorter-length cocktail dresses may be worn, when gentlemen are in dark suits. Prior to the mid 20th century this type of dress was known as 'late afternoon'. When gentlemen are in business suits, ladies also wear dress suits or "good" afternoon skirt and cocktail dresses. At black tie occasions, a longer, full-skirted cocktail dress may be worn, although in the late 1960s and early 1970s short cocktail dresses were acceptable black tie attire. By the 1980s a dress was considered to be cocktail less by where the hem fell, but more by the level of sumptuousness the garment attained. In the mid-20th century, some couturiers began describing full-skirted cocktail gowns as "dancing costumes". These are suitable for formal dances but not for balls, or other white tie affairs, where ball gowns are worn.
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tinkerjade wrote
hello its so nice can i buy that?joke i have a lot of money!!!!!!!!opposite of that
Posted December 01, 2008
eccles1 wrote...
We don't go out much any more to dinner or fancy places but I'll take the dress in the window!
Posted August 27, 2008
JaguarJulie wrote...
Personally, I could wear a cocktail dress several times a week if I had the function that required one! Ah, to live in NYC. Oh well, guess I'll just have to settle for casual. Great lens! 5*****
Posted August 19, 2008
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