Why ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ remains an iconic treasure

by Luke Fawcett
50plus Magazine

Does anyone remember when we all used to DRESS UP to go to church, to travel?

I’m so old I remember when businesses in NYC used to make even a humble office boy dress in a shirt and tie.

I went to a private high school and had to wear a suit every day! Audrey Hepburn’s character of Holly Golightly famously wore a Chapeau du Matin in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She donned the wide-brimmed, bucket-style hat with a luxurious scarf around the crown. Paired with her all-black, tea-length dress, she was the picture of class and sophistication. This film in the early ‘60s was the last era of “class.” It faded over time and now it’s gone. T

here was an innocence to the characters — Paul would write a book and become a famous author. Holly would give up her mad quest to marry for money and fall in love for keeps with Paul. The last scene in the alley as they search desperately for Cat in the rain. If they don’t find Cat, Holly will lose her soul and Paul will lose her and the world will EXPLODE.

Every time I see it a part of me says: “This time they WON’T find the damn cat and your life is RUINED!!”

I really am tormented until I hear the cat and the music livens and the chorus starts…. Yeah. It’s still magic. It’s still special, and it is soo different from now.

Maybe that’s why we still love it so much.