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#1: Merry Widow

Hollywood routinely influences fashion, of course, but rarely names it directly.

One exception involves the strapless corset that actress and pin-up girl Lana Turner wore in a 1952 musical that won an Academy Award for Costume Design.

The film was The Merry Widow, and the garment has been called that ever since.

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