One outfit that seems to have taken glitz to a whole new level is a silver coat created for the Queen's 1972 state visit to Paris.

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"Mr. Hartnell always went to town when the queen was going to France, " Maureen Marchan, who worked on the silver coat, told the Daily Mail newspaper.

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Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?

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