Make sure it has a proper lining stage lighting reveals transparency that wasnt visible in a fitting room
No dry cleaning needed
I love a dress because it's a one stop shop for an entire look, no thinking, planning or matching and people are always somehow impressed
There are wooden directional signs
As the well-worn anecdote goes, when Givenchy heard that a movie actress with the surname Hepburn was due to pay him a visit, he assumed that he would be meeting Katharine, and was confused when a woman appeared at his door with doe eyes and short hair and wearing a pair of narrow pants, a little T-shirt, slippers, and a gondoliers hat with a red ribbon that said Venezia. It was the twenty-four-year-old Audrey Hepburn, fresh off the filming of Roman Holiday. She had come to Paris, at the urging of the director Billy Wilder, to purchase authentic French clothing for Sabrina. Givenchy was charmed by her, but he was in the throes of preparations for his fall presentation, so he told her that he had absolutely no time to create anything new for her to wear
