Lost for decades, Dorothy's dress from 'The Wizard of Oz' is up for sale

Bonhams has the dress on display this week at the auction house's New York location before it is sent to California for public view and auction

It’s one of the most recognisable outfits in American movie history, the blue-and-white checked gingham dress a young Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.
 

For decades, one of the versions of the dress Garland wore in the movie was assumed lost at Catholic University of Amer­ica, where it had been given to someone in the drama department in the early 1970s. But the clearing out of some office clutter last year led to the finding of the dress in an old shoebox, and now it’s headed for auction.
 

When she first saw