The dominant color at the 2008 CMT Music Awards just may have been blue — as in frozen blue lips, with coordinating goosebumps. Women dressed for spring in skin-baring short dresses shivered their way into the Curb Event Center in Nashville as they got a dose of Tennessee’s “dogwood winter,” with temperatures in the low 40s at show time.

The cool air didn’t chill the heat on the purple carpet, however. Carrie Underwood sizzled in a flowing, royal blue one-shouldered Badgley Mischka mini with a beaded neckline. LeAnn Rimes channeled a space-age flapper in a super-short silver-gray scalloped mini, accessorized with long necklaces. Jewel looked as fresh as a warm spring day in a pale cream fitted mini accented with a bow around the empire waist.

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