shirley maclaine 1964 backless dress front in Edith Head gown for What a Way to Go! movie Gowns by Edith Head

(Above L-R) The infamous Backless Dress worn seated at a table, featuring a long pearl necklace draped seductively down her exposed back

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/ White dress with fur-trimmed wrap and fur muff worn when she emerges from a Lincoln Continental

how lovely if one could! -- James Powers, The Hollywood Reporter, 1964 The 1964 film What a Way to Go

The most famous example is the celebrated Diamond Dress worn with a suite of genuine Winston jewelsincluding a necklace, earrings, bracelets and diamond hair ornaments valued at roughly $2.5 million

03/05/2026 General, Books & Autographs Miss Head has designed a number of staggeringly sumptuous outfits and some that are done for fun, yards of fur, acres of chiffon