 Ginger Rogers (qv) had planned an elaborate blue dress, heavily  decked out with ostrich feathers, for the "Cheek to Cheek" routine.  Once director Mark Sandrich (qv) and Fred Astaire (qv) saw it,  they knew that the dress would get in the way of the dance routine.  Sandrich suggested that Rogers wear the white gown she had worn for  the "Night and Day" number in _Gay Divorcee, The (1934)_ (qv).  Rogers felt that all the men of the production were ganging up on  her, and enlisted the support of her mother, Lela E. Rogers (qv).  The arguments got so heated that Rogers ended up walking off the  set, only to return when Sandrich agreed to let her wear the  offending dress. As there was no time for rehearsals, she wore the  dress for the first time on camera, and, just as Astaire and  Sandrich feared, feathers started to come off the dress. In his  autobiography, Astaire claimed it was like "a chicken being attacked  by a coyote". The dress is in the final film and some stray feathers  can be seen drifting off it, albeit not quite to the same extent as  Astaire would have us believe. To patch up the rift between them, a  few days later Astaire presented his co