There was a story that this gown, with all the 'back' activity, was intentionally designed for this premier as a play on the movie's title. It may have been, but the gown was first seen earlier that year, on the Wales' Australian tour in November. (This may have been a cost-saving measure on the part of her husband - although designed for a domestic event, as part of a foreign tour wardrobe it would have been paid for by the government's Foreign Office, and not Charles.)
It had another play-on-words wearing in November of 1987 when she and Charles attended a Royal Gala performance of the Barry Humphries (as Dame Edna Everage) comedy show "Back With A Vengence" in aid of the Royal Marsden Hospital. Later that year in December she wore it to a London City Ballet gala (she was its patron).
When Diana auctioned 79 of her gowns for charity in 1997, this was Lot 74, described as "a formal long-sleeved dinner dress in burgundy velvet", and fetched $26.450. It was part of the group of gowns bought by Maureen Rorech-Dunkel and later exhibited for charity in the Dresses for Humanity touring exhibit. The gowns were later auctioned again in London in 2013, and despite spirited bidding by Australians, was sold for approximately $140,000 to what was named only as an American museum.
