Jayne Mansfield at home, C.1950's

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I've made a section for people wearing the same clothing as Marilyn (I can't phrase it properly right now :)) According to Andrew Hansford's 'Dressing Marilyn':-Jayne Mansfield wore the dress complete, with golden balls, in the movie The Spirit of St Louis in 1957, and Betty Grable wore the belted version in a TV special in 1954 called A Shower of Stars.- Marilyn in the test shot for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes wore the belted dress, but neither Travilla nor Marilyn liked this version and she never wore it. She did, however, wear the version with golden balls (for publicity and Photoplay awards in 1953). Marilyn may have worn this version in the movie or the one with the bow. As the dress is only seen from the back, we will never know, but the actress's favoruite version was the one with the bow.-During his career Travilla created many versions of this dress-always with a bow, which tells us that he clearly preferred this version too.-Travilla did not want Marilyn to wear this dress to the Photoplay awards because he thought it was too vulgar for real life (according to Donald Spoto's book, it was because he though the dress was too tight, she was too fat for it at the moment and that people would laugh).