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Going all out: Your guide to celebrating in style

This party season is about excess dressing, with an emphasis on opulence and exuberance. This is not the time to hold back

“Wearing an LBD this month is the sartorial equivalent of sitting in a corner sipping an Old Fashioned when everybody else is clamouring around a Champagne tower”

Unlike almost any other Christmas I can remember, the answer to any festive-wear crisis this month is categorically not a little black dress. It’s simply much too sober for the first festive season in three years that hasn’t been blighted by the other C word which I’m too superstitious to type out in full. Wearing an LBD this month is the sartorial equivalent of sitting in a corner sipping an Old Fashioned when everybody else ...