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Amelia Earhart movie inspires timeless fashions

Quick ReadAmelia Earhart hits the big screen as her style hits stores.

Aqua's leather bomber, $298, comes with a detachable

Photo credit: Handout | Aqua's leather bomber, $298, comes with a detachable lamb-fur collar; at select Bloomingdale's stores and bloomingdales.com.

She was always something of a tomboy, with her shock of cropped hair, mannish shirts and trousers - and, of course, those leather flight jackets.

"She was seldom happier," her husband once observed, "than when sprawled on the concrete tarmac ... grimy as a grease monkey."

If anyone could make grease monkeys glamorous, it was Amelia Earhart, the famed aviator who, in 1932, became the...

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