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"In actuality, there were plenty of black dresses before that date, including many by Chanel herself, and black was already a fashionable colour but there's something about this moment and the way it embodies the modernising spirit of the 1920s." That moment is how the new show begins the largest fashion exhibition the National Museum of Scotland has ever staged - a simple crepe de chine dress made by Chanel in 1926, borrowed from the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin

This longtime online marketplace boasts hundreds of secondhand dresses in pristine condition, with some sold directly from boutiques and others handed down from the 1940s

Look 2: Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan walked down the red carpet at Cannes in a golden Roberto Cavalli gown

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