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An Instagram moment: You with Princess Diana’s ‘Travolta dress’

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Los Angeles Times Daily Travel & Deal blogger

Time magazine once dubbed it one of the 10 most memorable state-dinner moments: Princess Diana in a “midnight blue velvet gown and sapphire and diamond choker” dancing with John Travolta at a gala dinner at the White House in 1985.

For the first time, Diana fans can have their photo taken with the stunning halter-top gown dubbed the “Travolta dress” at the Southern Women’s Show in Raleigh, N.C., through Sunday. It’s part of “Diana, the People’s Princess,” a touring exhibition that includes five gowns and other memorabilia about the royal who died in 1997.

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Check out this Associated Press video (above) of Tony Doblin, executive producer of the exhibition, who talks about the significance of the gowns -- and the princess.

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