The black dresses in the next gallery are about elegant practicality during the day and glittering refinement at night the ball, the opera, the merrywidow and the black widow.
Even major films occasionally dot the lineup like the deliciously sadistic "Gaslight" (1944), for which Ingrid Bergman won her first Oscar, or Erich von Stroheim's masterly silent version of "The MerryWidow" (1925), starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert.