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Just as at a wedding, guests should avoid white, ivory, cream, and very pale shades that could read as bridal in photographs

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Georgina Ripley, principal curator of modern and contemporary design at National Museums Scotland, said: The dress is incredibly significant for its own merit anyway, but for our exhibition its really pivotal because we are opening the exhibition with the idea that this is kind of the birth of the little black dress

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