BEST-DRESSED WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 308, 30 December 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

BEST-DRESSED WOMEN.

A LTTTLE-KXOWX ART

'Who are the "Ten Best Dressed Women in Hollywood , ;"

"Stop exaggerating —there are no ten best. At the most the-e are only six." So says Owen Wakeling, former designer for C. B. <le Mille, and recently selected by Joseph M. Schenek and Darrji Zanuck to create fashions for the stars of their newly-organised Twentieth Century Pictures.

But Miss Wiiki'ling qualifies her statement thus:—"What I mean is that there are not ten women who can dress flawlessly by depending solely on their own tastes. There are any number of Hollywood women who dress well — thanks to Adrian, Travis Banton, Orry Kelly, and other designers on whom they depend. But left to their own resources, they have not the talent which perfection in dressing requires. For that matter, however, there are few such women in the whole country. To bo perfectly dressed in every detail is practically a career, in itself. I would say there an; six actresses who qualify as the bpst-dressed oil the screen. They all are distinct from each other in type. They are Constance Bennett, Marion Da vies, Norma Shearer, Iledda Hopper, Joan Crawford and Lilyan Tashman.

"Norma Shearer would be my choice as the besl-groomed woman on thu screen. That is her own talent, to be Immaculate is innate. Joan Crawford more than any single actress affects the trend in styles. Whatever she would choose to wear on tlie ecreen would start a vogue. And while she is a bit daring, what in others would wem bizarre seems perfectly natural to her

electrical personality. Marion Davies excels in the femininely youth typo of clothes, and shows taste in never affecting the typo of things which do not become her.

"To my mind, however, the nonpareil of all is an actress who is lose frequently seen on the screen —Hedda Hopper. She is. always faultlessly attired in every detail."