Sutton Foster's outfit for "Blow Gabriel Blow" in the recent ANYTHING GOES revival also comes to mind. I thought her dress looked too much like the chorus girls' dresses to be effective, honestly. I actually thought she looked better in the pants they had her in for Anything Goes.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad