Star Wars is well-known for its iconic costumes, however neither Padmé’s gowns nor Han Solo’s blue/brown jacket are as notorious as possibly the skimpiest garment worn on-screen in your entire franchise: Princess Leia’s bikini, prisoner garb pressured upon the captive Insurgent by Jabba the Hutt. Now, the costume once worn by Carrie Fisher goes up for public sale, with an estimated worth as large because the garment is small.

The beginning bid for the ensemble seen in 1983’s Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi is $30,000 at Heritage Auctions, which payments it as a “manufacturing made bikini costume from [ILM chief sculptor] Richard Miller.” It comes with the next: bikini brassiere, back and front “bikini plates,” two hip rings, one armlet, and one bracelet, all crafted by Miller in collaboration with Return of the Jedi costumer designer Nilo Rodis-Jamero.
Extra particulars: “The bikini brassiere is the early model crafted of inflexible resin and is manufacturing used, as evidenced by eye hook on-set restore and glue residue on the inside floor from makes an attempt so as to add materials to make it extra snug for Fisher.” Even when it weren’t a extremely helpful show merchandise, it nonetheless isn’t one thing you’d put on to the seaside… think about sitting down in that factor! (The textile components of the costume—which is over 40 years previous, in any case—are recreations, as is the included wig.)

Visit Heritage Auctions here earlier than July 25 when you’ve got tens of hundreds of {dollars} to bid on this memorable piece of Star Wars historical past.
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