Historically, women's evening dress tended to be more physically revealing than day dress. Worn in private or semi private spaces, dresses with low necklines and bare arms were accepted as aesthetically sublimated eroticism. [ The Greatest Gowns That Queen Elizabeth, Meghan Markle, and More Royals Have Worn The 1810s were not entirely about white, as this evening dress surely attests. Far from it. Color was still a major player. This surviving evening ensemble is possibly one that was meant Kate Middleton's 20 best evening dresses, from the regal pink gown she wore for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee Caribbean tour, to her Jenny Packham dress for No Time To Die's premiere