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There are plenty of black-tie appropriate dresses out there with on-trend touches

"Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance," says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington

(If this is news to you, well, we hope you had a good long nap under that rock.) From Instagram mood boards to red carpet fits, the menswear zeitgeist is chock full of trends that children of the Rugrats era will all find strikingly familiar

Have fun in the preparation and enjoy the full effect on the night of your special outing.

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