light yellow satin dress Ensley Maxi - A dainty maxi with a square neck and low open back with criss cross straps Altar'd State | Sunny Satin

Release the reverse button and stitch forward again until your needle is off the fabric

Beyonce The superstar proved sometimes less is more in this simple but gorgeous black velvet Atelier Versace gown in 2005

(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.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003

The look is perfected with stretch spandex gloves in matching green and a headband crown with satin petals and pearl stems

Let one spiral hang down in front for just a touch of that Old Hollywood glamour