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(On a matt black surface, shadows dont show up at all, and there are no highlights.) The light-and-dark variation, which actually comes from specular reflection on the blue, easily gets read (particularly since a lot of colour-detail is lost in a phone-camera picture like this) as a sign of a white or pale surface.

The v-neck sequin gown includes thin shoulder straps criss cross over the open back and tie into a trendy corset detail

Indeed, in the Victorian era, widows were expected to wear black for at least one year after the passing of a spouse (or longer: Queen Victoria wore it for the rest of her life after Prince Albert passed away)

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