🦇ℬ𝒶𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓊𝓅 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝑜𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓈 𝒸𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝒢𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓂 ℋ𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃...
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One Dress a Day Challenge
May: Purple Redux
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Marilyn Monroe as Lorelai Lee
I'm not sure whether this outfit is one or two pieces. It looks like two, since the top and skirt are made of contrasting material, but it seems to have a zipper in back, which is usually something you'd see on a one-piece. The top appears to be of a soft knit material, and it features rather daring cutouts in a deep V shape. The V is echoed by the crossover shape in the front of the skirt, which has a faint stripe. The outfit is matched with two wide gold wristbands and dangling hoop earrings.
I just revisited this movie for the first time in ages. I'd forgotten what a fashion parade it is!
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combining a few of your costume prompts: what would you wear to a garden party held in a poison garden
That is an absolutely fantastic prompt, thank you!
I tried a few looks with masks or veils, but didn't like how they turned out, so I settled on a tea party full of Dangerous Ladies:
20. What would you wear to a garden party held in a poison garden?
A Look for Ladies who really love the Belladonna flower...
Closet Costume Challenge
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Movie: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Show girl Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) headlines a lavish Paris revue. She performs "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" while wearing a show-stopping multi-layered diamond choker necklace and a William Travilla-designed pink strapless gown.
While the necklace Marilyn wore on set is costume jewelry, during the film's promotional tour and photoshoots, she got to wear the real "Moon of Baroda," a 24-carat, pear-shaped, yellow, canary diamond discovered in the Golconda mines of India and originally owned by the royal family of Gaekwad, the Maharajas of Baroda, who – legend has it – gifted it to Marie Antoinette’s mother, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Meyer Rosenbaum, president of the Meyer Jewelry Company in Detroit, acquired the diamond and then loaned it to the actress for publicity purposes.
It was later sold at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in 2018 for $1.3 million, along with a black-and-white autographed photo of Monroe wearing the diamond and signed, “Thanks for the chance to wear the Moon of Baroda.” Five bidders fought over the gem, but the winning buyer prefers not to disclose his identity.
Rumors of a curse are associated with the stone, which is, said to only come to fruition when it crosses the water.
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