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Girls in white dresses
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Happy Memorial Day! The time has come for beach days, barbecues, rooftop parties — and your white wardrobe! We've rounded up 15 of the most iconic white dresses in pop culture history to inspire you this Memorial Day, whether you'll be breaking your lightest duds out of storage or you've been wearing them since Labor Day, old-school style rules be damned. Check out our picks, from the glamorous to the breezy to the, um, swan-like, ahead.
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Marilyn Monroe in The Seven-Year Itch
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, 1955. TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp.
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Her then-husband, Joe DiMaggio, may not have been too pleased with it, but Marilyn Monroe made a Hollywood moment for the ages when she stood over the subway grate in Billy Wilder's The Seven-Year Itch. William Travilla, who frequently dressed the screen icon, made the full-skirted halter dress that launched a thousand dorm room posters. This is the white dress to rule them all.
Related: Marilyn Monroe: 7 essential performances
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Björk at the 2001 Oscars
The 73rd Annual Academy Awards
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Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, Elizabeth Taylor, 1958
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Carrie Fisher in Star Wars
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in 'Star Wars'
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Forget the slave bikini. It was the image of Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia in this white dress and cinnamon roll 'do that first blasted her into the cultural consciousness in 1977, and she's remained an intergalactic fashion icon ever since.
Related: Carrie Fisher's life in photos
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Michelle Obama at the 2009 inaugural ball
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Michelle Obama kicked off her time in the White House with a white dress, choosing this dreamy one-shouldered silk chiffon gown for the 2009 inaugural ball. During her tenure as first lady, Obama was known not only for mixing high and lower-end labels (shout-out to J.Crew!), but also for putting the spotlight on up-and-coming American designers. This gown was created by Jason Wu (an Obama favorite), who didn't even know the FLOTUS had chosen his design until he saw her wearing it on TV. The iconic dress is now housed in the First Ladies exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Related: Michelle Obama's best pop culture moments
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Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
On the set of My Fair Lady
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She may have also worn white in the final ballroom scene, during which she demonstrates her perfected elocution, but Audrey Hepburn's most indelible fashion moment as Eliza Doolittle has to be the white dress and hat bedecked with black ribbon that she wears to the races. Eliza may slip back into Cockney speech, but she aces the fashion test with flying colors.
Related: Audrey Hepburn's legacy
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The Great Gatsby's Daisy and Jordan
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The ladies of The Great Gatsby powdered themselves from head to toe and lounged around in cool white shifts to beat the heat. "Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans," Fitzgerald wrote of the scene. If only they'd stayed on the couch that fateful afternoon!
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Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief
TO CATCH A THIEF, Grace Kelly, 1955
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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Lupita Nyong'o at the 2014 Oscars
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Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
BASIC INSTINCT, Sharon Stone, 1992
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Jennifer Lawrence at the 2013 Oscars
85th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals
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Natalie Wood in West Side Story
WEST SIDE STORY, Natalie Wood, 1961 WSSY 034(732)
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"White is for babies!" Natalie Wood's Maria complains when first given this dress, which she wears to the dance at the gym where she first meets her Romeo, Tony, in Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' West Side Story. But don't worry: Once she puts it on and looks in the mirror, it makes her feel pretty.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles' Tess Durbeyfield
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The first appearance of the title character in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is at a May Day celebration, where Tess and all the other girls in the village of Marlott, in Hardy's fictional county of Wessex, wear white. Not pictured: the "pronounced adornment" of a red ribbon/marker of imminent sexual downfall in our heroine's hair.
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Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
Vivien Leigh, Full Length; "Gone With The Wind"
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