7. Sense and Sensibility
Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood, 1800

Wedding dress. One-piece cream mesh fabric with straw worked standing collar and long trained skirt bordered with open work straw braid, heavy gold and silver beading over cream gauze underskirt studded with tiny silver stars. Cream full-length petticoat. Lace bonnet and veil with small flowers.

12. Onegin
Liv Tyler as Tatyana, Period ca. 1836

One-piece dress. Red satin, bodice with low neck; separate pleated diagonal bands running front to back over each shoulder forming a V shape at front. Covered button trim, back fastening, pointed centre back waist. Very full above elbow-length puffed sleeves of matching shot silk with large pointed petal-shaped satin epaulettes. Skirt pleated into waist around sides and back. Dull gold necklace set with red jewels

Costume design by John Bright and Chloe Obolensky

14. The Europeans
Lee Remick as Eugenia Young, Period ca. 1855

Grey silk dress with full-flounced three-tiered skirt overlaid with black lace. Bodice pointed at center front. Low round neck with wide black net ruffle and edged with cream lace frill. Short sleeves of black net.

Costume design by Judy Moorcroft 1979 Academy Award nomination

15. Scarlett
Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara, 1870s

Two-piece dress of aqua silk overlaid with black floral net. Short fitted bodice with very short sleeves. Low neckline trimmed with frayed ruched aqua silk and thin purple ribbon. Large corsage on left breast of deep red, purple, and green silk and velvet flowers. Fastened at center front with small glass buttons. Skirt full at back and slightly trained with band of pleated silk at hem. Black net overskirt caught up at back with silk and velvet flowers.

Costume design by Marit Allen 1995 Emmy nomination

16. Scarlett
Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara, 1870s

Two-piece dress. Fitted bodice continuing to form over skirt of black/brown silk brocade with pink green and gold floral design and edged with wide band of black lace. Low square neckline edged with gold lace. Three-quarter sleeves decorated with bands of lace and with ruffle of gold lace at cuff. Gold silk bow at back of dress. Underskirt with panels of gold silk and very wide bands of ruched gold silk around hem.

Costume design by Marit Allen 1995 Emmy nomination

17. The Portrait of a Lady
Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer, 1876-79

Two-piece evening dress of gold lamé overlaid with black and gold net. Long-line fitted bodice of diagonally patterned gold net over diagonally gold-embroidered lamé with low, wide neck edged with band of heavily black-beaded black net over gold. Very short cap sleeves of black-beaded black net. Two long black satin streamers decorated with black and gold sequins from center back of bodice. Straight skirt of vertically striped black net over gold lamé with appliqué beaded trailing flowers at hem. Very long train of black silk overlaid with layers of gold net caught up at back. Square end of train decorated with gold floral embroidery and sequins. Underlayers of pleated black silk around edge.

Costume design by Janet Patterson 1996 Academy Award nomination

18. The Portrait of a Lady
Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer, 1876-79

Two-piece outfit with trained skirt of purple silk moiré. Apron front caught up at back, edged with long silk tassels and an underlayer of pleating. Princess line bodice with heavily embroidered central front, cuffs, pocket flaps, and back neck in navy, purple, and gold. Buttons also embroidered in gold.

19. Toscanini
Elizabeth Taylor as Nadina Bulichoff, 1880s

Aida costume. Two-piece dress of purple striped silk with additional metallic pattern and other fabrics, heavily encrusted with beads, sequins, and large brightly colored stones in gold mounts. Overdress with low neck, front fastening, and short pannier-style bustle back with long striped green train, short sleeves with long tight jersey undersleeves. Underskirt with jeweled center front panel and silver patterned hem. Ornate jeweled and feathered headdress.

Costume design by Tom Rand

20. Far and Away
Nicole Kidman as Shannon Christie, Period ca. 1889

Two-piece dress with pale blue/green satin bodice with low neck, narrow triangular center front panel of gathered pale tulle bordered with bands of mustard/dark wine red/gray embroidery, which continue around back neck, back fastening. Very short embroidered and tulle sleeves. Skirt overlaid at front and back with pale tulle with embroidered side panels and front hem.

Costume design by Joanna Johnston

21. Hamlet
Julie Christie as Queen Gertrude, 1890s

Wedding dress. Two-piece of cream silk jacquard. Fitted bodice closing at front with glass buttons and with green self-striped silk trim at neck and cuffs. Skirt with long fishtail train lined with pleated green silk. Worn with gold tiara and net veil.

Costume design by Alex Byrne 1996 Oscar and BAFTA nominations

22. The Golden Bowl
Uma Thurman as Charlotte Stant, Period ca. 1900

Silver/gray silk satin evening dress with lace and sequin sleeves. Sequined center front section on bodice and underskirt on dress.

Costume design by John Bright

23. The Golden Bowl
Kate Beckinsale as Maggie Verver, Period ca. 1900

Two-piece evening gown of pale apricot satin with cream Russian lace. Low V neck filled in with ruched cream net. Elbow-length sleeves of heavy cream lace. Cream lace panels across bodice. Pale green velvet bow with floral "diamond" brooch at center on left shoulder and center front. Trained skirt with cream lace panels. Matching velvet belt with three diamante buttons at center.

Costume design by John Bright

24. The Golden Bowl
Anjelica Huston as Fanny Asingham, Period ca. 1900

Two-piece evening dress of black net over lemon silk overlaid with panels of silver lace. Trail of lemon chiffon appliqué flowers decorated with gold sequins trailing from right shoulder across bodice and down left of skirt. Lemon silk roses at right shoulder, floral "diamond" brooch at center front. Full sleeves gathered at elbow with gold lace ruffled cuffs. Trained skirt. Black satin belt.

Costume design by John Bright

26. Howards End
Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel, 1909

Two-piece evening dress. Beige net over gold open-work striped fabric lined with light coffee-colored satin slightly high-waisted bodice, the net coarsely embroidered with flowers in self-colored braid, deep V shapes of gold lace with small triangular fill-ins of gold-embroidered lace on center front and center back, low neck edged with gold lace, back fastening. Short sleeves with gold bobble edging. Flared skirt with broad center front embroidered panel, high waistband. Slightly trained.

Costume design by John Bright and Jenny Beavan

28. The Shooting Party
Cheryl Campbell as Lady Aline Hartlip, 1910

Gold and cream sequined evening dress. Long shift symmetrically patterned with white and gold sequins, gold embroidery, gold beads, and cream bugle beads over caramel silk shift. Wide shoulder straps. Uneven hem, tab at center front and longer in back. Long clear bead tassel hanging from hem. Two trailing strips from center back.

Costume design by Tom Rand

29. The Shooting Party
Judi Bowker as Lady Olivia Lilburn, 1910

"Butterfly" for costume ball scene. Underskirt consisting of layers of palest pink net with random sequins. Dress has a bodice of deep cream duchesse satin with large central hand-painted pink and sequined butterfly motif. Neckline edged with cream lace and pink and silver sequins. Butterflies attached to each shoulder and detachable net wings. Skirts consisting of "petals" of cerise pink stiffened gauze bordered with darker pink edged in tiny silver sequins and random appliqué sequined and hand-painted butterflies and dragonflies. Top layer of cream satin "petals."

Costume design by Tom Rand

31. Gosford Park
Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Sylvia McCordle, 1930s

Cream satin gown with plunging black velvet V at front and back and trailing sash from back of right shoulder. Diamante necklace with three large teardrop stones at center front.

32. Murder on the Orient Express
Jacqueline Bisset as Countess Andrenyi, 1930s

Cream and gray printed and figured silk dress. Bias cut with wide shoulder straps. Hem raised at front. Coat of raw cream silk with thick vertical ribs. Wide shawl collar, cuffs. Opening and hem trimmed with cream fur. Cream silk hat with veil. Two sprays of stiff cream feathers from silk bow at center front. Cross-shaped diamante brooch at center front.

Costume design by Tony Walton 1974 Oscar nomination

33. Shining Through
Melanie Griffith as Linda Voss, 1950s

One-piece dress. Bodice of cream georgette, top cut straight across at front, slightly lower at back. Hand-painted with multicolored flowers studded with silver beads, sequins,l and diamante. Broad pleated band attached to each side of top, running stole-like around shoulders. Full-length gored skirt of cream gauze, with stiffened underskirt. A narrow panel of floral painted georgette down left side of front.

Costume design by Marit Allen

35. Indiana Jones