Banton designed this costume for Amy Jolly's [Dietrich] reapparance on stage at the cabaret club for her second number What am I bid for my apple, which she sung in a sultry manner while selling each apple for a high price to the patrons. The bare-legged costume presents a striking contrast with the trousers and tailcoat worn in her debut performance. Steven Bach explains that this - after two songs, one armoured, one stripped for action - is clearly no ordinary woman.

As with the top hat and tails, it appears that Dietrich influenced the design. While filming, a body conscious Dietrich wrote but wait till you see my arms! The fattest things in the film. I had the same trouble with my big thighs. Of course we had to show the legs.... so we designed box-cut shorts in black velvet to hide the hips, but again I had trouble. The black line of the shorts made my white thighs look ENORMOUS, but that I fixed with a long fringed boa. I let it sort of hang on top of whatever thigh was nearest to the camera!

See footnote to previous lot.