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"Greetings from Paris, ladies! I arrived for fashion week, somewhat sleepily, yesterday morning and hit the ground running--or should I say ambled as quickly as my high heeled booties would let me. A few short hours after landing I found myself sitting at the Christian Dior show, watching flirty equestrian-inspired outfits shimmy down the runway--and was suddenly jolted wide awake. As you STFers know, caffeine is nothing compared to some high octane fashion. Drink it up, after the jump.\nThe thigh-high boots / cocktail dress combos at Dior really caught my attention, partially because I&amp;#39;d been circling the over-the-knee boot trend--but not diving in--for some time. Blake Lively and our own, always-chic Tracey found a way to make &amp;#39;em work, making me love them (the boots and the gals) even more.\nHowever, I&amp;#39;d never thought of going, well, glam with them before, until I saw the evening gown / tall boot combos at Dior, which I immediately gave a big thumbs up. (In my head that is. Whipping out the double digits at a runway show would be a level 11 fashion faux pas, though still not quite as bad as going commando in the front row.)\nPinterestFacebookAnyway, back to the boots. I love that the boots make a fancy party go-er look a little more rugged--like the gal in question is ready for something a little bit more adventurous than indulging in a second round of canapes.\nPinterestFacebookA model on the runway at Christian Dior&amp;#39;s fall 2010 show. Designed by John Galliano.\nPHOTO: Christian DiorOf course, there&amp;#39;s a fine line between looking like you&amp;#39;re headed for a Marie Antoinette-esque midnight field trip or about to embark on a Pretty Woman kind of evening when you wear over-the-knee boots, and I think the trick is in the color and cut of the stuff you wear with &amp;#39;em. For example, those pastel and ruffly Dior numbers don&amp;#39;t look R-rated, do they? Ditto for the ruched and draped cocktail dresses at Vionnet:\nPinterestFacebookTwo looks from the Vionnet Fall 2010 show. For more, log on to Style.com\nSince my calendar isn&amp;#39;t exactly chock a block full of proms, galas and good ol&amp;#39; fashioned dinner dances (remember those?) I&amp;#39;m not running out to buy a version of this outfit any time soon, but like brainstorming baby names, picking out a dream wedding dress, and wondering what went wrong in The Situation&amp;#39;s childhood, it&amp;#39;s just one of those fun to think about in the mornings while waiting for the coffee to kick in.\nWhat say you, lovely ladies? Are these a DO or a DON&amp;#39;T? What kind of shoes would you pair with these dresses instead? On another note, got any good &amp;quot;cure&amp;quot; for jetlag?\nCatch up on the rest of Paris fashion week by following us on Twitter!\nLatest Tweets!\nFollow us on Twitter!\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\nYou could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com!\nPhoto: WWD and Style.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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