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"Of the many fashion lessons I learned from last night&amp;#x27;s Met Gala (Kate Bosworth can do no wrong; Madonna is, in fact, ageless), the one that interests me the most is hemlines. They say you can judge the economy by their rise and fall, so maybe last night&amp;#x27;s abundance of uber-minis means my index funds will soon be headed north again? A bevy of beauties showed up last night with lots of leg showing, including Diane Kruger in Chanel, Rachel Bilson in Bally, Alek Wek, Jessica Alba in Jason Wu, Anja Rubik in Balmain, and Hilary Rhoda. The hemlines may have varied a bit, but almost all of them were a good few inches above the knee. I have to say, I&amp;#x27;m not much of a traditionalist and I&amp;#x27;m totally cool with this look--here in New York, an invitation that says &amp;quot;black tie&amp;quot; basically means &amp;quot;look chic.&amp;quot; In fact, it&amp;#x27;s become so common that a long gown almost looks...stuffy to me. A bit pageant-ish, if you will (read my rant on the poor evening gown portion of the Miss USA competition here!) There&amp;#x27;s definitely a middle ground between the flowing train some starlets wore last night and the itty bitty mini-dresses we&amp;#x27;re seeing here, which you pretty much need to be a supermodel to pull off--we average gals would be talking more like a little above-the-knee cocktail dress, really. What do you guys think of the short hemline for evening? Are you opposed to wearing a cocktail dress when an invitation calls for &amp;quot;black tie&amp;quot;? Do you think a gown is the only way to go? Or would you risk being more fashion-forward and opting for a shorter hemline, depending on the occasion? Time to play style jury, girls...are short hemlines for evening a Do or a Don&amp;#x27;t? Short hemlines for evening are a...(answers) PLUS: Check out our picks for the 10 best dressed women at the Met Gala AND: Find out our tried-and-true hemline rule for knowing how short is too short Add glamour.com to your Google homepage Follow Slaves to Fashion on Twitter! Photos: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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