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When a fashion article on the return of long gloves cites Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” as an example, that’s lovely. But when the next sentence goes on to say “Think Madonna in her music video for ‘Material Girl,'” the question arises: was the writer considering her audience’s perspective of 1980s cultural reference points or did she actually forget or not know that the original wearer of those long pink gloves was Marilyn Monroe singing “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend?” Also, to get even more pedantic, their gloves were actual the longer opera length, not elbow. Ah well, no use nitpicking the lint off of a fluff piece.

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