Years ago when the Costume Institute first opened an exhibition in the downstairs of the Met Museum in NYC, they had the most incredible exhibit I’ve ever seen. Never seen anything like it since.
The curtain dress was there with many others from the movie, but also the black and white dress from My Fair Lady (C’mon Dover, move your..!), the costumes from Top Hat, including Ginger Rogers ostrich feather dress (It was light blue!) and Fred’s impossibly tiny tux (he was only about 145 lbs at the time, I heard), the ballet costumes from the original Midsummer’s Night Dream (they were nude leotards with strings of crystals) Marie Antoinette, Marlene Dietrich, It Happened One Night, etc.
I was young then but loved movies. If I saw it now I would have known so many more of the clothes.
Midsummer’s night dream costumes-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4S-eNAWitE
Great ‘special effects’ -LOL!