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Many tea gowns, such as the one featured in this weeks Rate the Dress, were designed to look like a robe worn over a dress, thus literally demonstrating the cross between a robe and an evening gown
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It was all quite formulaic and, as times changed through the latter part of the 20th century, and into this century, a touch unrealistic