Glamorous Diana dresses up for auction

A Victor Edelstein midnight-blue velvet evening gown worn by Britain's Princess Diana when she danced with actor John Travolta in 1985 at the State dinner at the White House is adjusted by house assistant Lucy Bishop at the Kerry Taylor auction rooms in London, Feb. 28, 2013. / Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

If dresses could talk, this dark navy, figure-hugging velvet number would have the best stories to tell.

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Princess Diana's dresses up for auction

Princess Diana wore it on state visits, at royal banquets and most memorably to a gala dinner at the White House in 1985, when she took to the dance floor with Hollywood star John Travolta.

The Victor Edelstein gown will go under the hammer at a vintage fashion auction in London in March, along with nine other of Diana's lavish evening dresses. In total, Kerry Taylor Auctions say the sale is expected to raise more than 800,000 pounds ($1.2 million.)

The dresses, all in the signature 1980s look -- padded shoulders, puffed sleeves, crushed velvet -- are snapshots in the princess's glamorous, jet-setting life.

The sale is set for March 19.

[rwsmith29456]

That is a decent looking dress. Anything I ever saw Diana in was as ugly as homemade sin. I guess I'm not in tune with what England sees as women's fashion. Especially those hats. But their men's clothing is another story.