Dorothy’s Wizard Of Oz dress on sale for £180,000

A dress worn by Judy Garland for the iconic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is up for grabs, with a great and powerful price tag of £180,000. The dress and pinafore was one of several that were made for Garland while producers experimented with how they wanted her character Dorothy to look in the film.

It was the first of the prototypes made to feature a blue-and-white gingham pinny – a feature the producers stuck with for the final dress design.

Although the 17-year-old Garland didn’t wear the dress in any of the movie’s scenes, photographs exist of her wearing it on set.

The dress will be sold by Bonhams in New York on November 24.

If £180,000 seems a little excessive for a gingham dress, bear in mind that one of the four known pairs of Dorothy’s ‘ruby’ slippers sold for £378,000 in 2011.