knit midi dress black Clotilde crochet-knit line godets through skirt AX Paris Black Roll Neck

Basic black and oh so ugly

Lulus has elegant options that cost less than $100, but look like a total splurge

Pin Pin This costume is iconic because everyone involved in making it memorable Givenchy, Edith Head, Blake Edwards and even Audrey Hepburn herself understood that the combination of Parisian style, high-quality pieces that probably arent realistic for the character, and Hepburns own persona as an untouchable international beauty could get a 1961 audience to see Holly as a chic, glamorous, even heroic girl with dreams and not a tragic and sinful woman leading a life of questionable morals, which is how 1961 audiences were trained to see women like Holly

Fashionable black maxi dress with a feminine silhouette

I think both camps are right