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Mail Online skirts around Grayson Perry's pearl necklace

Grayson Perry at the TV Baftas
Cock frock: Grayson Perry at the TV Baftas (click for larger image). Photograph: Tim P Whitby/Getty Images

What's this – a pearl necklace, on Mail Online? Grayson Perry's Bafta TV awards gown (created by Central St Martins student Morgan Levy and last year's winner of a dress designing competition the artist runs annually at the college) has a none too subtle motif – an, um ... ejaculating penis – that may have been missed, or possibly skirted around, by whoever captioned Mail Online's red carpet pictures on Sunday. The outfit is coyly captioned as a "nude panelled dress", while in the story itself Perry gets props for paying "homage to the nude coloured trend". Urban Dictionary provides rather more explicit definitions of the phrase that best describes the overall effect.

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