Kitty Hollywood Short Dress - Sabrina's Ballgown in 'Sabrina' - 1954

I don't really know what more to say about this gown apart from WOW. The first time I saw this film my jaw literally dropped upon first seeing Ms Hepburn in this gown, and to be honest it just kept dropping for the rest of the film. What I wouldn't give....but enough about me. On to the gown!

Just so you can have another look. I recently watched this film again with A Young Person, and their jaw also dropped - so really it hasn't dated at all. I do wish that there was more opportunity to wear a ballgown in this current world.

Although (and this is just between you and me, please don't tell anyone) Audrey Hepburn is not always my favourite actress in the whole wide world - she most certainly knew how to wear something.

http://3hourspast.com/2012/04/29/my-favorite-movies-sabrina-1954/

http://alisonkerr.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/style-on-film-sabrina/

The little black cocktail became so enormously popular that a number of cocktail dresses were sold based exactly on this style across the next few years - and there was also a sewing pattern or two specifically designed for the home sew-er to recreate the look...

http://pintuckstyle.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/edith-head-sabrina-penelope-gowns.html

And if I ever have a waist again I might try to do that very thing.

But back to Edith Head.

As David Chierichettu mentions in his marvellous book 'Edith Head: the life and times of Hollywood's celebrated costume designer' - the thing that so many actors loved about Edith Head was that she could cover up their weirdnesses. If they had a high waist, a long neck, weird boobs, sticky-outey ears, a hunchback, you name it - she could conjur up a way to cover it up - to draw the audience's eye away from the peculiar. This is exactly what she had planned on doing with Audrey Hepburn, after all, she had done it in 'Roman Holiday'. Cover up the long neck, the skinny arms, the outey ears. This time around, Audrey was having none of it. It was all very gracious and understated - but Audrey wound up with clothes that accentuated beautifully all the features that Edith Head had planned to hide. She effectively, with the profound assistance of Hubert de Givenchy, made herself a style icon.

What did Edith get? An Oscar. For clothes she did not design.
Don't get me wrong - I love Edith Head and her utter drive and persistence in a masculine world. I think she is a Top Chick and deserves thoroughly to have a Pixar character based on her.

http://blogs.disney.com/oh-my-disney/2013/08/25/words-are-useless-unless-they-come-from-edna-mode/

But accepting an Oscar for work you do not do and just quietly hoping that the Actual designer won't say anything because it would not be gentlemanly, well, the only thing I can think to say is this....

http://imgur.com/cYCFI

And that is all.