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"Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance," says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington

A version of this article originally appeared on Glamour US.

There are plenty of black-tie appropriate dresses out there with on-trend touches

(If this is news to you, well, we hope you had a good long nap under that rock.) From Instagram mood boards to red carpet fits, the menswear zeitgeist is chock full of trends that children of the Rugrats era will all find strikingly familiar

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