Eve's was a well-known night club in the 1970s and 1980s, situated in a basement in Regent Street in London's West End. Its floor-show was written by the club's owner, Helen O'Brien, taking ideas from a wide range of sources, from popular song to Shakespeare; while based on the traditional showgirls, all leg and, at that time, topless, the references and wit of the designs of Ronald Cobb combined into a sophisticated entertainment.
Many of the scenes involved the singing of a song while the girls paraded in costumes wittily illustrating the words. This costume accompanied the Cole Porter song "Miss Otis Regrets" in which a very correct servant explains to the hostess that Miss Otis has shot the man ‘who led her so far astray’ and has been lynched, so consequently is ‘unable to lunch today.’ Cobb’s macabre costume, admirably catches the black sophistication of the lyric, although this costume has none of its understatement. The use of a neckband and fabric passing between the breasts continues ideas from other costumes in the sequence. The bat under the front panel is an example of Cobb's 'invisible' g-string, a construction which dispensed with side fasteneings and was held in place by a stiffened wire curve, which fitted between the legs.