Devil Of A Blue Dress:

Taking The Wraps Off A Fashion Strategy

Now what about that dress? Does the long-sleeved, belted, blue shirtwaist from the Gap still matter? Or is it like all those McGuffins in Hitchcock movies, just another evidentiary dead end stuck into the script to fool us for a while?

For starters, the dress had nothing to do with Monica's getting immunity. When Ken Starr's lawyers first asked Lewinsky about the dress last month, her lawyers refused to let her answer. Don't even go there, they warned Starr's deputies. The prosecutors dropped the matter, and contrary to other published hints, Lewinsky got full immunity for herself and her parents...

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