Difference: ChristmascostumesChen (2 vs. 3)

It appears that I'm not the only one. In a matter of sexy lingerie supplier days, I manage to round up a group of four friends for a Saturday night visit to Les Chandelles. Our company is informed ahead of time that the golf club has a rigid dress code, along with a few other obligatory rules. Attendees must arrive and leave in couples, and women are required to put on skirts and high heels, while men must be dressed in fits. Although this all seems mildly archaic, I channel an inner Tom Ford woman that I never knew existed, going for a black pencil skirt with a gold zipper down the back again, a black silk tank, and a fitted, semi-sheer Helmut Lang blazer (which I was asked to remove at the door).

The males step it up in classic wholesale Christmas costumes suits, although one particularly fashion-forward male friend cannot resist throwing on an intricately beaded Dries Van Noten harness (which he is notably notasked to remove at the door). After getting past a security guard whose head-to-toe look of appraisal takes me back to the days from the Beatrice Inn, we are awarded entry and descend to a lavish, Moroccan-inspired labyrinth of a space. At the center of it is a brightly lit bar, surrounded exclusively by couples, mainly French, in what seems like their early forties.