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Article: Polo Club.
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- May 1, 2000
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Venice may be sinking three-quarters of an inch every year, but the mood at the Metropolitan Club was far from somber when a group of New Yorkers who love the crumbling city pulled out their carnival masks and untrunked all their Silk Road finery for Save Venice's Marco Polo Masquerade Ball.
"When I was first on the committee," said co-chair Dayssi Olartede Kanavos, "New York was in a depression and you couldn't get people into fancy clothes. Now people are rich and they want to get dressed."
The crowd made every effort to drum up Marco Polo's ports of call. Men donned Venetian velvets and brocades, elaborate Middle Eastern robes and, ...