Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts

When Marilyn Monroe(1 June 1926 - 4 August 1962) was 16 years old, she married for the first time, not for love, but to escape being sent to yet another foster home. Two years later, she divorced her first husband and married another two men, both high profiled, both marriage short lived. She has also seduced various other men, mostly high profiled high powered, from Hollywood producer to American president to French prestigious performer.

With a body that "Woman want to be of" and "Men want to be with", Marilyn Monroe did not find lasting love, but she has found eternality among millions of men who want to remember her, and among millions of women who like to look at how she wore everything, including a pair of high waist shorts. 

Marilyn Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943–44.