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With a floor-length hem, the dress exudes formality and grace, making it ideal for special occasions and pageant stages

The best part: It's under $60

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Its a beautiful black velvet off-the-shoulder dress with white faux fur trim

The most striking part of the outfit, however, is the taut, parasol-like circle behind her head

To oversimplify, their perceptual experience of the dress is based less purely on the "bottom-up", raw sensory information arriving at their eyes, and is distorted more by their own assumptions and expectations about the background illumination