They were modest in the front but exposed bare skin at the back, down to the waist on the most revealing models
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When the Lord Chancellor announced Prince Charless engagement to Lady Diana Spencer on 24 February 1981, American Vogue promptly commissioned a table laying out the betrotheds cars, clubs, income [and] endearing mannerisms. Charles, readers learned in the May 1981 issue, loved Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyns works on the Gulag, was nicknamed Action Man and Golden Eagle, counted Verdi as his favorite composer (with a particular fondness for La Traviata ), and habitually wore both Turnbull & Asser shirts and Penhaligons cologne
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With this context, I wondered if the ball gown was yet another way Chiuri referenced the heroine at the heart of Dior, alongside all those florals in the decor and other looks