Marilyn Monroe’s Personal Green Pucci Belt

From the personal wardrobe of Marilyn Monroe: A green silk belt by Emilio Pucci. The belt is constructed of braided green silk cord and finished with decorative tassels of faceted green glass beads. Marilyn wore this belt in the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the period when she collected Pucci pieces extensively.

Accessories such as this belt played an important role in Marilyn’s wardrobe, allowing her to personalize otherwise simple garments. Pucci pieces in particular held special meaning for her in the final years of her life.

Marilyn is widely reported to have been buried wearing the green Pucci dress she wore while traveling in Mexico in February 1962 (see photo below). While the belt itself is not documented as part of that ensemble, its association with Pucci and its preservation alongside her other personal effects place it within the same intimate period of her life.

This belt stands as a personal accessory rather than a costume piece, offering insight into Marilyn’s private wardrobe and her affinity for Pucci designs during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Marilyn Monroe’s Personal Pucci Blouse

 Marilyn and Pucci

Marilyn collected Pucci items in multiples; if she didn’t have a dress in every color, she certainly had one in every other shade. She favored a palette of flesh tones, of leafy greens or of shocking pinks and mauves with occasional excursions into deep blues. Unlike her ‘working’ daytime wardrobe, which was predominantly black, these were clothes for Marilyn to play in, and by the beginning of the sixties had replaced the natural colored chambrays, the capri pants and matching shirts she had worn throughout the mid to late fifties. Looking at Marilyn’s Pucci wardrobe today, it is astonishing how contemporary it seems; the feather light dresses cut as simply as T-shirts; the silk shirts in brilliant colored jewel prints, designed to be worn, as Marilyn did with simple white pants or with jeans, are of today, not of yesterday.