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The big sale includes cocktail dresses worn by the actress and the magazine owner's famed silk smoking jackets.

At a New Year’s Eve event in a Sheraton Hotel ballroom in West Des Moines, jeans and cowboy boots outnumbered tuxedos and cocktail dresses, and Miller Lite seemed more popular than champagne.

Three society women in cocktail dresses stare up at the camera, each with her right fist raised in the Black Panther salute.

But turns out, cocktail dresses existed long before then as women gradually entered the workforce and took on new roles within a more progressive society.

“A perky and heavily perfumed brunette in a red cocktail dress.”