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This week's No Thank You is aimed mainly at myself. The Little Black Dress, so they tell me, has had its day. Anyone who turns up at a party in one now might as well wear a placard saying: "I'm sad and stuck in the Eighties." Well that's as may be, but little black dresses are jolly useful. They hide a multitude of sins and hint at a dark, devilish side of you in a way no other colour can. Yes, I too long to turn up at a gathering wearing A Colour, and sometimes I do. But then the style has to be more carefully thought out, to ensure it is more flattering, and I get into a tizz about what shoes to wear. We should all, therefore, be out there looking at alternatives to LBDs. Except for me of course. Because I write about what you should all do, and then do what I damned well please.
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