In the novel Atonement, writer Ian McEwan took great care to describe the dress that his character, Cecilia, wore to the dinner where she would finally kiss her true love. In the 2007 film adaptation, Keira Knightley, who plays Cecilia, ended up wearing four different versions of the same gown by Jacqueline Durran, in deepening shades of green, to reflect her emotions as she comes closer and closer to being alone with her lover.