Ginger Rogers chose the dress. Fred Astaire was annoyed by her feathers. But when they danced together in the 1935 film Top Hat, to Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek," they made the quintessential ...

In My Story, Rogers shows the breadth ... and I was in full evening dress—black satin knickerbockers, white tie and tails,” he writes. “And naturally—a top hat. There it was.