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Does a cocktail dress need to be black to be appropriate

Lets see how we can style black dress in different ways

With the skirt made, the bodice is attached to the skirt!The inside of the dress, once the skirt was attached.This was the hard partmaking holes in a perfectly good bodiceTo tie it all together, I wanted matching lacing for the laced-up back (pun intended)

For the color, the Markarian team presented a few different options, before they selected an ocean blue shade that "signifies trust, confidence, and stability." The fact that the silk face mask that Markarian made for the outfit will also be displayed in the Smithsonian is something O'Neill loves