Updated on February 23, 2021, with new images and additional recipe information
In Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway our titular character moves through her much-anticipated party elegantly in a silver-green mermaids dress with the perfect ease and air of a creature floating in its element. In Atonement , too, McEwan writes of Cecilia discarding a pink frock for being too innocently pale, instead appraising her emerald-clad appearance: It was a mermaid who rose to meet her in her own full-length mirror. AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT Perhaps we too want to be in thrall to green at the moment coolly submerged and transformed into something mythic, hungering after its suggestion of unapproachability (think of Gatsbys green light across the water, or the distant call of Ozs Emerald City)
In some cases, craftsmen will add fine threads of gold or silver to the weaving for an elegant finish
Formal attire A formal dress code is still buttoned up and calls for a suit, but no need to scramble and rush to get your first-ever tux
Figure Out What Other Guests Are Wearing If you can, find out what at least one other guest (whose fashion opinion you trust) is wearing
