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If slingback heels are not walkable for you, then consider the chic slingback flat instead

The plus-size strapless short cocktail dress has a mini skirt with tummy-camouflaging ruching and booty-contouring pleats that offer a sexy vibe for weddings, homecoming, and other semi-formal events

Size: US2-US16W / Custom size

If you're craving a little educational "time travel" back to a period and place we don't see depicted in fiction all that often, least of all in this genre, then buckle up for a wild ride through the vibrant and raucous streets, neighborhoods, dive-bars, nightclubs, and whorehouses of LA's Black community in the middle of the 20th century

Carry a woven shoulder bag and layer a couple of delicate necklaces

Mascara Place stain face down on a clean paper towel