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"Ali McGraw&amp;#x27;s influence on the fashion world is just about immeasurable--designers from Michael Kors to Roberto Cavalli have cited her as an inspiration, and her tomboy-chic 70s style has been ripped off, recycled, and refreshed as many times as fashion hall-of-famers like Madonna and Coco Chanel. So we were kinda surprised to learn that in her heyday, one of the most important items in her wardrobe was... ...a secondhand tablecloth! Yes dolls, the Huffington Post is taking a glimpse at her iconic style with their &amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s Bring Back&amp;quot; series, and among the revelations about this week&amp;#x27;s subject, Ms. McGraw, is the news that she used some rather untraditional pieces to achieve her perfectly imperfect look. Sign up for our style newsletter and get the best of our fashion blog, delivered straight to your inbox! &amp;quot;Yet she originally began her career in fashion, working at one point as an assistant to legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland,&amp;quot; the article says. &amp;quot;Perhaps this influenced her wonderfully innovative approach to dressing. As MacGraw&amp;#x27;s ex-husband, producer Robert Evans, former head of Paramount, recalled in his famous memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture: &amp;#x27;Her entire wardrobe consisted of scarves to use as turbans, embroidered tablecloths used for wraparound skirts, etc.--naturally, all second-, third-, and fourthhand. Yet ...each year she was on the best dressed list. Style, unlike fashion, cannot be bought nor taught. You either have it or you don&amp;#x27;t.&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; How true! Isn&amp;#x27;t it amazing that something so simple (that I&amp;#x27;d probably only ever think to use to catch crumbs) could actually be transformed into something so elegant and covetable in the right hands? I love her even more now that I know how she truly spun straw into gold with her wardrobe! I have plenty of my own strange fashion fixes (yes, I&amp;#x27;ve &amp;quot;hemmed&amp;quot; my jeans with duct tape before!), and I adore learning about someone else&amp;#x27;s--especially when that someone is a legitimate style icon. What do you dolls think of Ali&amp;#x27;s ingenuity? Do you agree that style is something that can&amp;#x27;t be bought or taught--that truly chic people are just born with it? Do you think Ali is one of those people? And what are some unexpected pieces you&amp;#x27;ve made in your own wardrobe? Share! PLUS... - DIY time: Adventures in denim distressing AND! - What are your weirdest wardrobe fixes? Photo: Staff/AFP/Getty Images Can&amp;#x27;t get enough STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3}); "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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