Marilyn Monroe’s Potato Sack Dress

You’ve heard the saying “She’d look good even if she was wearing a potato sack”, right? Yeah, that was Marilyn Monroe’s doing:

The oft-told story around this photo is that a reporter told Marilyn that she only looked so good all the time because she wore expensive dresses. This was her rebuttal. We don’t know if all this is actually true, if it was a story dreamed up by her publicist to get her onto magazine covers, or if it’s completely-spurious popular folklore.