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Ahead, see how Instagram users and content creators worked a lace-trimmed mini into Karen from "Mean Girls," a fringed silhouette into a '20s flapper with elbow-length gloves and a knotted strand of ivory pearls, a floor-sweeping maxi into a dead bride, and a velvet, off-the-shoulder skater dress into a cat

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But the non-gown option still has to look formal

The answer has a lot to do with the fact that the typical dress of the general populace around the world, especially in the United States, is largely dictated today by what famous and other notable people are wearingbe they celebrities, politicians, or people in similar fields