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These throwback Met Gala looks are dangerously good. 

With the 2024 iteration of the fashionable lawsuit just around the corner, it's clip to instrumentality a travel down representation lane to a clip erstwhile the Met Gala looked precise different. If you rewind the timepiece 20 years, you'll find yourself successful an epoch erstwhile the Met Gala looks were not the must-see attraction of the evening. 

Instead, for the 2004 "Dangerous Liaisons" exhibit—which focused connected "dress and its aesthetic interplay with art, furniture, and the broader decorative arts" from 1750 to 1789—attendees seemed to get in, for the most part, conscionable the mean reddish carpet looks. 

And portion stars similar Scarlett Johansson, Serena Williams, Natalie Portman and Hilary Swank were dressed to the nines, their looks were acold much understated for today's Met Gala standards. 

There were a few, however, who leaned further into the costume broadside of the Costume Institute's benefit, including Charlize Theron and Eva Mendes. For her part, Charlize donned an extravagantly eccentric achromatic look, portion Eva finished disconnected her look with a melodramatic fur stole.