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The wedding dress that keeps on going, and going and going |
| No runaway bride here: A Chinese woman recently broke the record for the longest wedding train. The 1.2-mile-long train took 200 guests a whopping three hours to unroll. And in case the thing wasnt obvious enough on its own, it was adorned with 9,999 silk red roses. |
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Marie Antoinette wasnt into showing skin |
| While Kirsten Dunst played a flirty Marie Antoinettecomplete with bedroom eyes and low-cut necklinesthe real teen queen was so modest that she d wear a flannel gown buttoned up to her neck while bathing! To be fair, though, if you had a slew of staff huddled around the tub, youd probably want to sta... |
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The Wicked Witch of the West wasnt the only one who had a thing |
| In 2005, someone swiped one of the original pairs of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz from a Minnesota museum. The pricey shoeswith an estimated value of somewhere between $660,000 and $1 millionhave yet to be recovered, though its doubtful anyone could get away with wearing th... |
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Marilyn Monroe had a pricey birthday suit. |
| Diamonds might be a girls best friend, but rhinestones arent so bad either. Especially when 6,000 of them adorn a flesh-color gown worn by Marilyn Monroe. The dress that the original blond bombshell wore while delivering JFKs birthday serenade at Madison Square Garden in 1962 fetched more than $1.26... |
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Your shoe addiction is nothing compared with Imelda Marcos. |
| When the former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos and her husband were kicked out of their palace and exiled in 1986, she had to say goodbye to 2,700 pairs of pumps, stilettos and slingbacks. Thats 5,400 shoes. But before you get too jealous, remember: This was a time before all the design... |
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New York City: birthplace of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren andthe |
| While the loincloth has popped up in history everywhere from medieval times to ancient Egypt, the modern G-string is rumored to have been born in New York City, near the end of the Depression. In 1939, New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ordered the citys exotic dancers to be more covered up in h... |
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Queen Elizabeth I is responsible for the whole British hat thing |
| If youre wondering why our stylish friends across the pond seem to top off every event with a hat, you can stop wondering. The British tradition of wearing hats to most formal occasions is often credited to Queen Elizabeth I. In 1571, during her rule, a law was created that mandated that anyone over... |
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