F ew things demand an updo at 8 am, but Crystal Charity Ball’s 10 Best Dressed Women of Dallas is one of them.

Dallas’ grand dame of fundraising organizations, Crystal Charity Ball, has raised more than $198 million for children’s charities in Dallas County since its inception in 1952. One hundred women comprise the organization, which hosts two annual events that are considered canon in Dallas’ social registrar: the annual ball on the first Saturday in December (last year’s “New York Holiday” soiree felt like a Manhattan dreamscape ) and the 10 Best Dressed Fashion Show and Luncheon.

Miraculously, the latter event once again returned to the hallowed halls of the flagship Neiman Marcus in downtown Dallas for its 51st iteration. Earlier this year, when we collectively mourned the seemi

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