The actor taking up Witherspoon’s mantle also paid her a lovely fashion tribute: 25-year-old Lexi Minetree promoted Elle on The Tonight Show in a ruched pink dress with black lace by Marc Jacobs that Witherspoon herself wore in 2001. On the same show, a few days later, the original Elle Woods revealed that she had kept all the outfits from her character’s very pink wardrobe. Naturally, Witherspoon invited Minetree to dig through her archives to choose promo looks with Minetree’s stylist. Witherspoon said the stylist, who happens to be one of the Oscar winner’s longtime friends, asked her if she still had any dresses from that time. “I have all the wardrobe in storage, so I sent her as many dresses as they wanted,” Witherspoon recalled on The Tonight Show. “I said, ‘choose any dresses that you want for her.’ And she put it on and it fit perfectly. It’s like Cinderella’s slipper! She was meant to be Elle Woods!” Lexi Minetree on June 17 in New York. Aeon Lexi Minetree on June 17 in …