HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 174, 25 July 1935, Page 14

HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

WHAT THE DESIGNERS SAY.

(By MOLLIE MERRICK.)

When Hollywood's younger set steps out on warm evenings, nine times out of ten their dancing , frocks are fashioned out of the colourful cotton materials that are so popular for summer wear.

Blonde Marian Marsh wears a most intriguing dress of navy blue handkerchief linen, coin-dotted in white. An organdie ruffle outlines the neckline, and wliito camellias are fastened at the front of the square decolletago.

Ida Lupino goes in for black and white striped seersucker, cut in the sophisticated fashion of an elaborate evening gown. For a sharp colour contrast she wears two scarlet poppies to accent the already high waistline of the frock.

Cotton lace, in wliito and pa.stel shades, runs high in favour for dancing frocks, too.

Hollywood style broadcast by two of the best-known designers for the screen: — Travis Banton: "Furs are the farthest thing from my mind for tho next reason. I am tired of the heavily laden costume ill which rich silver fox collars are the highlight. This coming fall will eee me really working out details which will be far more original than a large fur scarf or a cluster of s;iblc tails. J shall work more with detail in fabric and colour than with jnaseivc fur collars, scarfs and wraps." Adrian, discussing the costumes he has created for Joan Crawford in her new picture, describes one a* "a satin evening gown adorned by an interesting silver fox treatment." And, again, these two designers dilfer in regard to the skirts of tho coming season. Says Adrian: '"The feature of the gown (another Crawford creation) is its utter simplicity of line and trimming. It is moulded to the figure with just the slightest flare toward the hemline. Floor length in front, it features the tiniest of trains at the back." And Banton: "You might as well start saying farewell to those slinky, poured-in evening gowns hanging ko safely and confidently in your closet. They're out! And in their plai-e arc full, diaphanous gowns which descend from a normal waistline in a graceful abundance of fabric. \our feet should show in evening frocks, and your legs during tlio daytime. Skirts are going , up. and you might as well face it."

With euch delinite ideas on stylo, it won't bo hard to decide which camp our Hollywood beauties have joined. If her tootsies ehow, she's rooting for Banton, and if smothered in silver fox, she thinks Adrian is about right! You're just nobody at our smartest night clubs if you don't carry one of tho little glass fans that are part of the really chic girl's accessories these evenings. They've made a terrific hit in tho cinema colony. Frances Drake, lovely brunette, has one in the conventional fan shape fii-t----ened to her wrist with a gold leather strap. She uses it with a white crepe ninon gown and cloth of gold wrap, Wendy Barrio has one cut in an oldfashioned heart *li;ipe, and fastened to her wrist with a blue ribbon to match a blue tulle dancing frock. And Sylvia Sidney has found a fan of tho circular type, which she uses with a silver cord and either a black or a white frock.