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Jewelry can enhance your outfit, so consider simple earrings or a statement necklace that complements your dress, contributing to the overall elegance of your look

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Egg-free version: Use cup of soy milk instead of egg yolk, or try this recipe for a vegan white French dressing

Small inconsistenciessuch as wearing a black belt with brown shoescan instantly reduce the sophistication of an otherwise well-tailored outfit

In Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway our titular character moves through her much-anticipated party elegantly in a silver-green mermaids dress with the perfect ease and air of a creature floating in its element. In Atonement , too, McEwan writes of Cecilia discarding a pink frock for being too innocently pale, instead appraising her emerald-clad appearance: It was a mermaid who rose to meet her in her own full-length mirror. AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT Perhaps we too want to be in thrall to green at the moment coolly submerged and transformed into something mythic, hungering after its suggestion of unapproachability (think of Gatsbys green light across the water, or the distant call of Ozs Emerald City)

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