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Which is why, as fashion historian Valerie Steele wrote in her book The Berg Companion to Fashion Hepburns dress is still the most famous of all little black dresses. And why it fetched 467,200 (about $604,000 in todays money) when it was auctioned at Christies in 2006, making it one of the most expensive film memorabilia of all time

Either way, the silhouette enabled women to move freely and shimmy on the dance floor, instantly attracting the starlets of the era

The inner leotard is cut in a low-leg line for additional coverage

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