The well-documented dilemma of A-list parties is known as identical-dress shame.

When you are the star guest you definitely don’t want to be upstaged. You definitely don’t want to be seen in the near-same dress as another. Victoria Beckham suffered her first American public identical-dress shame moment.

The welcome-to-America party hosted by Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith has been the talk of Tinseltown. For all the wrong reasons.

Victoria and Katie made the I-know-what-are-you-wearing call pre party and turned up in completely different outfits (Katie billowing and red versus Victoria short and black). Then along came Jada.

Jada stood out in an almost-identical dress (minus the halterneck) to Beckham. And the look on their faces during the photocall confirms the black-clash frock blunder.

Worst still, Eva Longoria stole all the best-dressed headlines. Shame on you, pesky newlywed. It was supposed to be Victoria Beckham’s night.

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