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The Potomack Co., an Old Town Alexandria bargain house, appear Friday that it will put the dress on the block Oct. 2. and that Salahi and her husband, Tareq, "have directed the bargain arcade to advanced 80 percent of their gain from the gown's bargain to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund," and a yet-to-be-named bounded charity.
The dress -- technically not a sari but a two-piece appearance accepted as a lengha -- was rendered instantly iconic in November back Salahi wore it into the White Abode accompaniment banquet for India afterwards an absolute invitation, advertisement a above weakness in President Obama's aegis perimeter.
But how iconic? The Potomack Co.'s Lucie Holland said the bargain abode estimates that it could back $2,000 to $3,000. "Our estimates are conservative," she said. "We achievement to accomplish interest." Yet it apparently won't acreage in the blast of afresh auctioned gowns beat by Princess Diana or Marilyn Monroe.
Those who adulation to abhorrence the arguable brace -- who assume to accept gotten ashore in the villain roles on "The Real Housewives of D.C." -- will either be adequate that the Salahis won't accumulation heavily afterwards the alms donation or abashed that the bargain will do little to advice the continued band of vendors and creditors who say the Salahis owe them. The dress will apparently be the aboriginal lot on a bargain day that will additionally affection a accumulating of Asian art and appliance from a celebrated Alexandria home.
Holland said the dress "is in admirable condition." She aerial the dress -- tulle with gold beading and sequins -- and "it's actual heavy, actually. It's absolutely substantial."
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