1.   At a recent one the bridesmaids wore black sequined dresses, while the bride wore a white sequined gown.

2.   Bette Midler had chosen his beige and salmon sequined gown but showed up in a black sequined gown instead.

3.   A blue sequined gown resembled the aurora borealis, and white made her look like the Pillsbury Doughboy.

4.   But what do bikinis and sequined gowns have to do with scholarship and social issues?

5.   In a simple violet-blue dress with a string of pearls, and in the final scene an elegant sequined gown, she looks radiant.

6.   She enters the room agitated, but dazzling in a sequined gown, her hair aglow under a jeweled tiara.

7.   She was buried in the purple sequined gown she wore to accept her Grammy Award last year.

8.   So instead of tuxes and sequined gowns, the attendees were dressed more casually.

9.   The discarded funny hats by dawn seem like ancient relics, the sequined gowns as odd as the discarded styles of some justifiably forgotten decade.

10.   This is a town of mass-produced formality, where every man owns at least one tuxedo and every woman two sequined gowns and three little black dresses.