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Health of civilization can be measured by different yardstick. One of the criteria — is dress code. Today, despite the boom in the textile industry, the range of the existing requirements for formal wear is quite poor. Language of clothing is gradually «interjections.» Therefore, let us remember the days when there was still a «literary language of fashion.» Here is «approved ceremonial dresses» the ladies of the Imperial Household, 1834.