Labels: audrey_hepburn, BoneItLikeBeckham, StLouis
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Joni
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 7:03:00 AM
Road trip to St. Louis! C'mon! Who's in?!
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Allison
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 8:30:00 AM
Given that the dresses are being sold to support a scholarship, it seems a real shame that they are selling them so cheaply.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: fabricgirl
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 10:43:00 AM
Darn, I'm nowhere near St.Louis! Jen ~ MOMSPatterns
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 11:10:00 AM
Aaaah.. I LOVE Audrey.
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DATE:Dec 7, 2009 11:55:00 AM
I'm in. This is no lie, last night I dreamed of the Audrey Hepburn wedding dress although I had never seen it before...cue Twilight Zone music.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: MommytoAva
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 12:05:00 PM
Erin, Sheila / Out of the Ashes Collectibles
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 1:07:00 PM
If you look up the word "Iconic" in the dictionary Audrey's picture shows up. Okay just kidding but she is certainly the epitomy of Iconic
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Cookie
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 1:27:00 PM
Like every human being, I adore Audrey Hepburn. I recently watched one of her last films, Robin and Marion and she looks just as gorgeous at age 50 without tricky lighting and camerawork, practically without makeup. I am convinced she had SOME form of anorexia, however. Shirley MacLaine said that when they worked together, Hepburn would eat a hardboiled egg for lunch. That's it. The basis of her fear about gaining weight seems to be that when she came over on the boat from Europe to do her first Broadway play, she was so lonely and frightened that she gorged on chocolates the whole way, and was almost fired when the producers saw her. I think she gained 30 pounds. From then on, she was EXTREMELY conscientious (I would almost say phobic) about maintaining a very very slim figure. It's not that she DIDN'T eat, but...well, she had food issues. One writer said her slim appearance is embraced by women because it represents a time of girlhood, before a young woman has entered the messy world of sexual attraction and entanglement. I know the subject of Hepburns underweight can bring up strong reactions in her fans...but really, at times she was much much much too thin, and that size doesn't just HAPPEN. (I know all the stories about how the starvation she underwent in occupied Belgium threw off her metabolism, but I simply cannot accept that's the whole story.)BUT, I of course absolutely adore her, despite her sometimes sickly appearance.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Fine Estate Sales
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 4:26:00 PM
Thanks for the link to my site, this story has generated so much interest, it's incredible...
DATE:Dec 7, 2009 7:45:00 PM
Audrey said that her eating issues related directly to her near starvation during WWII, and that anytime she was stressed, she'd basically just stop eating altogether. She knew she had eating issues, but she skated on the edge with it and survived. She had a beautiful spirit.
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AUTHOR: Vegan
DATE:Dec 8, 2009 4:45:00 AM
Too bad they're not putting the vintage dresses on eBay - they'd get so much more money, even if they paid one of those services that takes a commission. lucitebox
DATE:Dec 8, 2009 9:28:00 AM
I love the wedding dress story. Thanks for sharing Erin & Jenny!
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