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NATE REHLANDER OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. • One woman's pool cover-up is another woman's black tie, but even caftans have limits. • Don't be the reason the charity has to clarify "no live animals" as part of the dress code. • B r i n g i n g y o u r o w n photographer to the ball? If you're that thirsty, just head to the bar. • Long story short: Your dress should be longer than your Spanx. • A drunken wave during the live auction? That's a bid, babe. And it just cost you $15,000. • Don't be a one-trick pony at a seated dinner, speaking only to the person on one side of you. Y our three intrepid society scribes — Shelby Hodge, Billy Fong, and Melissa Smrekar — have done our fair share of eating hotel ballroom chicken and doing the cha-cha late into the evening in our black-tie finery … and never think that we don't enjoy every moment. We are living our best lives watching the Houston and Dallas social circuit swirl like a whirling Dervish. And alas, we've been witness to some things that unfortunately cannot be unseen. Yes, time and again, we jot down in our little leather notebooks (monogrammed TEA) what we've collectively decided to label Party Fouls. For your enjoyment (or perhaps warning), here are 12 of the most notable as we all peruse our wardrobe arsenals to suit up for the fall soirées. • Candles and dried flowers, a beautiful centerpiece mix until … an inadvertent display of flames and smoke gets in your eyes. • An ill-prepared live auctioneer once pronounced the label as "Brunello Coo-senelee." • Women without children, we don't need to know that your husband "shoots blanks." • Guys and dolls smoking in the lady's loo. Naughty, not nice. • Sex behind the pipe and drape. Get a room. • You didn't buy a ticket for the gala but made the scene. We know who you are. Plush New Store Continues the Legacy Fendi's R etail expansion in the luxury market — we're talking brick-and-mortar stores with ever-increasing square footage— seems to be a thing in Houston. Now Fendi has reimagined its Galleria boutique and reopened with 3,552 square feet. The maison joins Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, which recently debuted their own mammoth new stores in River Oaks District, with Carolina Herrera right behind them, opening this fall. The Fendi expansion is a fitting salute to the house's centennial year. Established in Rome by Adele and Edoardo Fendi in 1925, the legacy brand transitioned to the couple's five daughters, who then transformed what began as a fur and leather goods label into a potent luxury house with global reach. And, lest we forget, Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel fame did a collaboration with Fendi for some 54 years. The fresh facade is inspired by ancient Roman architecture, with a sequence of subtle three-dimensional arches in Travertino marble, while a vibrant color palette of orange and red is subdued with pink and masculine brown. The iconic Baguette and Peekaboo bags have pride of place, along with a vast array of men's and women's leather goods, accessories, ready-to-wear, and shoes. Shelby Hodge Party Fouls The newly expanded Fendi boutique in the Galleria, with Fendi Casa furnishings 32