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THE DRESS CODE for the Frick Collection’s Young Fellows Ball, a banner event on the spring social calendar in New York, called for “luminescent black tie.” The demand for shimmery attire, less arbitrary than it might seem, was rooted in the evening’s theme, “Turner by Moonlight,” a celebration of the museum’s new exhibition of 39 works by the English painter, which runs through May 14.

Some at last week’s event took the sartorial mandate quite seriously: One guest threw a silver lamé baseball jacket over her red gown;…