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Article: Fancy dress costumes worn by Arctic Monkeys sold to Hard Rock Cafe.
- Article from:
- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- April 28, 2007
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FANCY dress costumes worn by Sheffield Brit Award winners Arctic Monkey's have been sold at auction to the Hard Rock Cafe.
The outfits, which included characters from the Wizard of Oz and the Village People, fetched [pounds sterling]720 in a Christie's pop memorabilia sale in West London.
The costumes, worn in two videod acceptance speeches, were hired from fancy dress shop Mr Ben's in Crookes.
And after attracting so much attention in the aftermath of the Brit Awards, shop owner Fiona Gallagher decided to put them up for sale.
"I originally thought about putting them on Ebay but on two occasions my computer crashed and I couldn't," she ...