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This movie inspired the later and more famous Some Like it Hot First a Girl (1935) a comedy in which Jessie Matthews dresses as a man

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I made my templates from vinyl fabric (I bought the whole roll to make curtains in my garage but decided not to use the fabric for curtains in the end)

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But recreating Holly Golightly's iconic Hubert de Givenchy dress is never a bad idea, so go for it

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