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For more insight into this year's go-to dress for holiday parties, weddings, and beyond, four of our writers tried it on IRL to give you a little bit more intel

It provides a gentle, flattering blurring effect over the arm without adding any visual bulk to the upper body

16: Cut-Out Delicate Floral Summer Maxi Gown This floral maxi dress screams Bridgerton, but with a sexy twist

Moreover, it does so through exploiting the very techniques that produce the male gaze in cinema: shot reverse-shot editing patterns that can be used to align the camera and the audiences perspective with the diegetic look of the male character.[ (( Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Screen , Volume 16, Issue 3 (Autumn 1975): 12