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WASHINGTON www.dressregistry.com, hopes to set bounds to the social nightmare of showing up at an inaugural ball sporting the same gown as another by allowing you to “register” the gown you’re wearing to a specific ball. It includes a deposit to detail the color, length, designer, neckline description and other distinguishing characteristics. You can moreover upload a photo.

Andrew Jones got the idea after his helpmate traveled from their home in West Palm Beach, Fla., to New York City to buy a gown for a charity ball in their hometown, solely to avoid seeing the same set at the event.

“I kind of put two and two together and I said, ‘I account there’s a way technology can help us in the present state,’ ” said Jones, 42, an auto-industry consultant.

The dress-duplication problem has in extent caused anxiety among women.

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“If it could happen to the first mistress, it could happen to anyone,” Jones said. “With the inauguration, it fair all came together in my mind. I thought it would be a great time to roll it out.”

At specialty stores in the Washington area, some thought the Web site a novel idea but suggested it may not be foolproof.

“Nothing’s illiberal anymore,” said LaShea Green, couture buyer at Saks Jandel in Chevy Chase, Md., who had not heard of Jones’ Web site. “I don’face to face charge to what extent abundant you keeper of a record, there’session going to be someone (at an event) who didn’t register.”

So more distant, inaugural partygoers have registered about 100 gowns for more than 24 official and unofficial events, including the Constitution Ball, the American Indian Inaugural Ball and the Green Inaugural Ball hosted by Al Gore. As the inaugural festivities near, the registries keep growing.

“I’ve had people self-registering their events each day,” said Jones, adding that he’s recorded some 300,000 hits and more than 10,000 unique visitors since the Web site launched Dec. 1.

“As the site gets greater amount of populated, we may be efficient to gather by what’session heart threadbare for each particular event, what people are leaning to,” he said.

Registered dresses are mostly ankle length, numerous company by plunging necklines. Labels range from an ankle-length blue dress by Banana Republic to a scoop-neck, to-the-floor ivory gown by Halston. Shades of purple, orange and red seem to outnumber the long-cultivated master-piece, infamous.

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