1.   She wore a blue velvet gown with black trimmings.

2.   Ballroom skirts were not in abundance this year, so when Helena Bonham Carter swept in wearing a ruby red velvet gown by Christian Lacroix, everybody looked.

3.   After intermission, changed into a red velvet gown, Peters explained to her sympathetic audience that she was fighting a cold.

4.   He tie-dyed white velvet ball gowns with enormous full skirts and wrapped them in down comforter stoles.

5.   His achingly beautiful fabrics, jackets made entirely of seed beads, and shibori velvet gowns were a match for the splendor of the setting.

6.   He wears a velvet gown, and lets a red ball roll off his hand and drop to the floor.

7.   One dresses in different team jerseys, the other dons a black velvet ball gown.

8.   The women, in short camisoles, don black velvet gowns.

9.   There was a dark green velvet gown by Victor Edelstein that Diana wore to private dinners at Kensington Palace.

10.   What I thought was a toast and platinum velvet gown was actually green over nude that had been washed and faded.