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This idea of the modern woman or drinking woman was an ideal rooted in newfound concepts of individuality and a denial of Edwardian matronly functions. As Cruz goes on to mention, the prominence of cocktail attire for women as we know it today was largely the result of collaboration between high French couture and American department stores

The tradition of the so-called Privilge du blanc allows queens and princesses of Catholic royal houses (and only them) to wear white mantilles and dresses during Pope audiences and Holy Mass at the inauguration of a Pope

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