Some Like It Hot (1959)

Sugar Kane's sheer beaded dress for "I'm Through with Love", worn by Marilyn Monroe Orry-Kelly's cocktail dress for Monroe's torch song looks almost like nothing at all: a sheer, nude-toned base worked with beading, so that in black and white the effect is of sparkle and skin. It turns a sad ballad sung at a piano into the most talked-about image in a comedy full of men in dresses. Orry-Kelly won the Oscar for the film's costumes, and the dress sold at auction in 2016 for well over $400,000.