The dress is secured at Halle Bailey’s neck, but with nothing on her back to keep things in place — and very little on the front — I have to wonder if she was at risk of a wardrobe malfunction.

Adele has fancied the LBD for almost as long as she has been in the public eye (see the night-sky Armani LBD she wore to the Grammys in 2012). But the sheer number of black gowns she has worn ...