At Trolley Ball, a fashion schedule for all times

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 30, 1991| Author: Marian Christy, Globe Staff | Copyright information

It was a fascinating pull between what was and what is.

Saturday-night partygoers chose either prim Victorian gowns with, yes, "trains," or updated bare numbers that screamed fast cars -- preferably convertibles.

The fashionable tug of war occurred at the first Trolley Ball at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, to benefit children's programs at Boston City Hospital, including pediatric AIDS.

Elegantes who see fashion as philosophy had something to say.

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