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"Monday night was Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s annual Women of the Year awards. Normally, I go, but as I&amp;amp;#8217;m now all the way across the ocean, not this year. One thing I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always liked about the show is that it&amp;amp;#8217;s actually quite serious&amp;amp;#8212;this year among the honorees were women saving child soldiers in Uganda (Empowering Hands) and becoming the first woman Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi). Usually everyone cries at some point in the night. It&amp;amp;#8217;s all very moving. The red carpet reflects the gravitas, as the presenters and honorees and attendees usually look smart, not frivolous. But put yourself in their shoes, and ask yourself how you&amp;amp;#8217;d do &amp;amp;#8220;sort of black tie for a serious event&amp;amp;#8221; without rubbing up against dead boredom? Dignity is key, so obviously, there&amp;amp;#8217;s no Lil&amp;amp;#8217; Kim going on. But you don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to take it to the Oscars place either. That kind of bling is too much for a night that&amp;amp;#8217;s a little more humanitarian. (I mean, wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t the temptation be a too bit great to simply take off one of those borrowed Fred Leighton danglers and toss it to the women who save sex slaves in Cambodia?) When I&amp;amp;#8217;ve attended in years past, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve usually dressed down, but then no one&amp;amp;#8217;s really expecting much from me on the red carpet. For those in the actual spotlight, there were four women who met the challenge especially well: Portia de Rossi went classic cocktail. Jennifer Connelly pared down the flash and stuck with tough-girl heels over delicate little nothings. She&amp;amp;#8217;s still got the spirit in the poufy Oscar de la Renta princess dress, but she&amp;amp;#8217;s keeping it real. Main honoree Jennifer Garner boho-ed it up a little in her Oscar de la Renta column. And if you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to wear a suit, a more versatile fabric is best, like Fran Lebowitz&amp;amp;#8217;s grey flannel. Fellow frequent suit-wearers like Ellen DeGeneres and Diane Sawyer (who wore a slinky black dress last night) know this trick well. Sorry I missed the big show, but Suze was there, so hopefully she sounds off a bit on the goings-on of the night. Congrats to all the winners! &amp;amp;#8212;Alex"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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