Unpacking them was always like Christmas all over.

Unpacking them was always like Christmas all over.



She said that clothes having once belonged to Hepburn, who died in 1993, rarely come to auction and the last two pieces fetched a whopping $1 million.

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Most of the lots come from the closets of Tanja Star-Busmann, a longtime friend of the actress. The two met in London when Tanja was 15 years old and Hepburn 20 - just before her career took off.

"I was perhaps her first unofficial fan - writing letters to her from boarding school and receiving replies," Star-Busmann, who is now in her 70s, wrote in the auction catalog. In addition to letters - some of which are to be sold - Hepburn also regularly gave her young confidant her hand-me-downs, which became increasingly fabulous as her star rose.

One of the pieces, a white point d'esprit bustier dress Hepburn wore in the 1956 movie "Love in the Afternoon," came shortly after Star-Busmann gave birth to a daughter. Enclosed with the frothy tulle was a note reading "just so you know what it's like to have a waist again," the catalog said.

After she recovered her figure, Star-Busman passed the dress on to her nanny, who - not having Hepburn's wasp-thin figure - had it enlarged using two panels down the back.

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A better-preserved version of the same dress in black - Hepburn was in the habit of acquiring her favorite dresses in both shades - is also to be auctioned.