<p>There are four women who I find so irresistible that I will automatically purchase any magazine that puts them on the cover: Audrey Hepburn, <a href="http://www.blogher.com/we-try-out-marilyn-monroes-favorite-beauty-products-do-they-still-work" target="_blank">Marilyn Monroe</a>, <a href="http://www.everydaytreats.com/2008/10/i-am-a-jackie-i-do-everything-the-right-way.html" target="_blank">Jackie Kennedy</a> and Grace Kelly. It doesn&#39;t matter how many times I&#39;ve read (or, to be honest, reread) their life stories, or how blurry the never-before-seen photos are -- I&#39;m helpless to their charms, and I instantly and happily part with my money. After all, what&#39;s $4 in exchange for a little girlish fantasy? </p>

<p>Which probably explains why I have a subscription to Vanity Fair. Have you noticed that they have <a href="http://cm1.theinsider.com/thumbnail/400/425/cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/94/83/marilyn-monroe-vanity-fair-october-2008-cover.jpg" target="_blank">one</a> of these <a href="http://media.wwd.com/images/processed/wwd/2009/09/02/portrait/02-tout/vanity_fair.jpg" target="_blank">women</a> on the <a href="http://img364.imageshack.us/i/vanityfair591cover1e6c9sy8.jpg/" target="_blank">cover</a> at least once a year? You&#39;d think the ladies are still with us, but no -- their lives were just that fascinating that we still want to read about them.</p>

<p>Imagine my delight when this month&#39;s magazine landed in my mailbox and I saw my favorite classy blonde on the cover:</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/4499569533/" title="gkvfcover by R. S. M., on Flickr"><img alt="gkvfcover" height="500" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/4499569533_c4a83425e3.jpg" width="386" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Lovely!</p><p style="text-align: left;">When I read the article&#39;s teaser -- <em>How a Philadelphia Dreamer Became a Princess and Why Her Classic Style Still Inspires</em> -- I knew I was in for a treat, so I settled in on the sofa for a few minutes of escape. Princes! Diamonds! Monaco! What&#39;s not to love?</p><p style="text-align: left;">Then I noticed the <em>other</em> teasers.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><em>TIGER WOODS:</em> (ugh!) <em>The Women, The Kinks, and How it All Came Crashing Down</em></p><p style="text-align: left;">For the love of everything, Tiger Woods? And then, as if thing couldn&#39;t get any worse:</p><p style="text-align: left;"><em>TIGER&#39;S GIRLATHON GALLERY!</em></p><p style="text-align: left;">Seriously? How tacky!</p><p style="text-align: left;">And of course, I went straight to the Tiger stuff. Because I&#39;m only human, people.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The Tiger article was predictably sleazy, but what I really found interesting were the pictures of the women he cheated with (or the &quot;girlathon gallery&quot; as VF so classily called it) -- the pictures were definitely styled to contrast with Grace Kelly&#39;s photos. </p><p style="text-align: left;">For example, here&#39;s Grace Kelly giving us a knowing look over her left shoulder:</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/4499569369/" title="gkvf by R. S. M., on Flickr"><img height="500" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/4499569369_41b8bf7fc2.jpg" width="386" /></a></p>

<p>And here&#39;s the modern day of the over-the-left-shoulder look:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/4500204812/" title="gkvfbed by R. S. M., on Flickr"><img alt="gkvfbed" height="500" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/4500204812_fa484439ab.jpg" width="386" /></a></p>

<p>Um, yeah...Who needs clothes when there&#39;s the NY Post, right?</p>

<p>One more! Here&#39;s Grace Kelly in a white bathing suit:</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/4499575767/" title="gkvfkellysuit by R. S. M., on Flickr"><img alt="gkvfkellysuit" height="500" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/4499575767_8c3b0a9a9c.jpg" width="386" /></a></p>

<p>And here&#39;s the modern day version:</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/4500205408/" title="gkvfwhitesuitkelly by R. S. M., on Flickr"><img alt="gkvfwhitesuitkelly" height="500" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/4500205408_a975de1efe.jpg" width="386" /></a></p><p>We live in awful times. Truly.</p>

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