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Pair with tan or beige shoes to contrast beautifully

Obvs. For Ella Eyre the colour was the least of her worries as she tweeted: the dress is f****** ugly, the colour is the least of my concerns. Predictably a flurry of hilarious memes have emerged showing John Travolta kissing the dress at the 'Oscars', Kim Kardashian covering up with the garment during her famous Paper magazine shoot and Mean Girls' Regina George confessing: "That's the ugliest effing dress I've ever seen."

I've lightened up a black cocktail dress for a summer wedding with coloured shoes, statement jewellery or red lipstick," says super stylist Rachael Wang , echoing my thoughts entirely