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The 'cocktail' dress code originated in the 1920s, when women began enjoying more freedoms, and a dress code became necessary for the many soirées on the Roaring Twenties' agenda. It called for a ...

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Popularised in the 1940s as a dress code specifically dedicated to events that unfolded in the period between tea time and nighttime, cocktail attire—also termed as Semi-Formal—begins to veer ...