Insiders gripe that Met Gala fashions are no longer chic: 'Very Halloween' - New York Post

Monday night’s Met Gala dress code is “gilded glamour.” Yet some insiders fear that attendees will embrace the tackiest aspects of late-19th-century Manhattan society.

In 1883, Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt attended her sister-in-laws famed masquerade party in a dazzling gold-and-silver gown, custom from Paris, dubbed Electric Light, complete with hidden batteries tha… [+6776 chars]

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