An original Bob Mackie sheer silk peignoir-style gown with beaded accents was worn by Cher and Bernadette Peters. Cher wore the piece for a performance of "I Honestly Love You" on The Sonny and Cher Show, season 2, episode 14, aired on October 10, 1976. Peters wore the garment in an editorial for a 1981 December issue of Playboy Magazine.

A full-length white gown of sheer silk jacquard with a check pattern cut on the bias. The gown's design features an empire waistline with an asymmetric hook-and-eye closure, a white bugle beaded sash sewn at the waistline, ties at the closure, and features beaded tassels, a low-cut v-neck line trimmed with rows of bugle beads, and voluminous bishop sleeves with beaded trim and tassels at each cuff. The gown has a beige, blush-tone jersey slip, a Bob Mackie label sewn at the interior, zip and hook, and eye closure at the back.

Bob Mackie and Cher have become one of the most incredible designer-muse symbiotic relationships of the 20th century. His nude illusion beaded and rhinestone gowns have become a part of fashion's pantheon of designs in pop culture. In 2019, the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition on Camp featured numerous Mackie Mackie designs from the 1970s and 80s. Designers like Donatella Versace, Alessandro Michelle, and Jeremy Scott were among the contemporary designers whose custom looks paid homage to original, sexy, and satirical Mackie's designs.

This lot comes with an issue of Playboy (December 1981) that features Bernadette Peters editorial where she wearing the property being offered.

Bob Mackie's career spans six decades with his work gaining popular and critical acclaim since the 1960s, including, three Academy Award nominations for costume design, nine Emmys wins (total of 33 nominations and awards), a Tony Award for The Cher Show, and the prestigious CDFA Geoffrey Beene award.