You Can Now Own Sci-Fi's Most Iconic Bikini

Star Wars is well-known for its iconic costumes, but neither Padmé’s gowns nor Han Solo’s blue/brown jacket are arsenic infamous arsenic possibly the skimpiest garment worn on-screen successful the full franchise: Princess Leia’s bikini, captive garb forced upon the captive Rebel by Jabba the Hutt. Now, the costume once worn by Carrie Fisher is going up for auction, with an estimated terms arsenic immense arsenic the garment is small.

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The starting bid for the ensemble seen successful 1983's Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi is $30,000 astatine Heritage Auctions, which bills it arsenic a “production made bikini costume from [ILM main sculptor] Richard Miller.” It comes with the following: bikini brassiere, beforehand and backmost “bikini plates,” 2 hep rings, 1 armlet, and 1 bracelet, each crafted by Miller successful collaboration with Return of the Jedi costumer decorator Nilo Rodis-Jamero.

More details: “The bikini brassiere is the aboriginal mentation crafted of rigid resin and is accumulation used, arsenic evidenced by oculus hook on-set repair and glue residue connected the interior aboveground from attempts to adhd worldly to marque it much comfy for Fisher.” Even if it weren’t a highly invaluable show item, it inactive isn’t thing you’d deterioration to the beach... ideate sitting down successful that thing! (The textile parts of the costume—which is implicit 40 years old, aft all—are recreations, arsenic is the included wig.)

Image: Heritage Auctions/HA.com

Visit Heritage Auctions here earlier July 25 if you person tens of thousands of dollars to bid connected this memorable portion of Star Wars history.

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