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If slingback heels are not walkable for you, then consider the chic slingback flat instead

Carry a woven shoulder bag and layer a couple of delicate necklaces

Its a subtle call for elevated style without rigid uniformity

If you're craving a little educational "time travel" back to a period and place we don't see depicted in fiction all that often, least of all in this genre, then buckle up for a wild ride through the vibrant and raucous streets, neighborhoods, dive-bars, nightclubs, and whorehouses of LA's Black community in the middle of the 20th century

A curiosity: the inspiration for Ekberg's dress was the model signed by Jean Louis for Rita Hayworth in Gilda, which in turn was an homage to the one in John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Madam X