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A display of slacks and jodhpurs is shown as part of the "Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" exhibit in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Two designs by Margaret Furse and Germinal Rangel, from the 1975 ABC Circle Films production of "Love Among the Ruins," are shown as part of the "Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" exhibit in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Three designs by Motley, from the 1962 film "Long Day's Journey Into Night," are shown as part of the "Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" exhibit in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A suit worn during publicity photos for the 1967 movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," is shown as part of the "Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" exhibit in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
FILE - Actress Katharine Hepburn strolls down a country lane on location near London during the filming of their made for TV movie, "The Corn Is Green," in this Jan. 23, 1979 file photo. "The fact that she wore slacks and wanted to be comfortable influenced women's ready-to-wear in the United States," said Jean Druesedow, director of the Kent State University Museum, which was given 700 items from Hepburnís estate. (AP Photo/File)
NEW YORK — A new exhibition is hailing the fashion sense of Katharine Hepburn, whose trademark khakis and open-collar shirts were decidedly unconventional in the 1930s and 40s, when girdles and stockings were the order of the day. The fiercely independent Hepburn famously once said: …