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In the United States, Emily Posts Etiquette says simply that women should wear a formal evening gown while Letitia Baldriges New Manners for New Times recommends a full-skirted ballgown, lots of jewelry but never too much, fur wrap, long white gloves. Debretts, the UKs most definitive source of social protocol, says in its New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners that Women wear long, formal evening dresses

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