HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 14

HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

WARDROBES OF THE STARS. Frogs will be back with tis again, come the springtime. I didn't mean the kind that chirp cheerfully in pools along country lanes at night. I mean the braid frog which lias, disappeared from everything but men's pyjamas of late years, and which threatens a combaek in a very line sort of way on women's clothing. Your spring coat will fasten with a frog at the throat, if some of the Hollywood designers are to be believed, and your belt may even be frogged. And if you're determined to be very swanky and original in your bedroom apparel, nothing in the* world is so chic just now as washable satin pyjamas in lovely white, lustrous as a pearl and with the Russian coat caught with a series of vermilion red frogs all the way down the front. Brown and grey are having quite a time of it these days. The new Mrs. Gary Cooper trotted off on her honeymoon in platinum grey corduroy and sables. Her shoes were brown, her stockings grey, her hat grey and her gloves and bag' brown. This colour combination is subtle, dangerous —unless the materials are glamorous and lovely—and must be effected in a manner that will not suggest durability. Carole Lombard has a grey satin frock which lias brown satin yoke—a gleaming, soft, lustrous piece of material which ties into a loose Windsor tie at the low-high neck and which is very flattering to her blonde colouring. She wears grey sandals with this costume, but brings in the brown in the sheerest hosiery to be seen. The Tailored Claudette. C'laudctte Colbert is typically French in that she always has a very fine tailored suit for wear in her private life, in the forefront of her wardrobe. That is tvpically Parisian, for the French feel that if your tailleur is superb you need never worry about any event befoie six or seven o'clock. The present Colbert tailleur is of navyblue. It is simple in cut —avoids the broad shoulder exaggeration which is now quite passe with the ultia chic and relics on its many blouses for varictv and whim. The blouses range from white mousseleine, with pleated neck ruffles, to necktie silk tailored to a finish, and cuter than anything you can ever imagine for morning shopping. Ihcre is a wondciful powdery silver fabric, with great blue 'design's on it, which the Colbert uses wlieu she wears a tailleur to a tea nartv. And there's a marvellous blouse of fabric ancien in faded yellow which makes something entirely different out of it, especially when it is capped with a funny little "turban of the same, and worn with blue fox furs. You can't get far away from black and white if you have dark hair and white skin. And the black and white open check Lyons velvet of which hay Francis* newest afternoon shopping dress is made, is ideal. Tailored on long, simple lines —a glorified shirtwaist dress, to be precise—it emphasises the chic of its wearer and that certain something she possesses which is the despair of other beauties, and which runs her weekly cheque up as its importance becomes more and more apparent. She wears with it a tiny hat rather far back .011 the head, all black and very severe. , And her furs of silver fox are quite in | keeping with the magpie colouring of | the whole.