I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-French physicist and chemist [b. Maria Salomea Skłodowska]

Letter to Casimir Dluski’s mother on her offer of a wedding dress (1895)
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Regarding an offered wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre Curie (1865-07-26). As quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse, Madame Curie: A Biography, ch. 8 (1937) [tr. Sheean (1938)].