BEST-DRESSED WOMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27274, 28 December 1949, Page 5

BEST-DRESSED WOMEN

NEW YORK INSTITUTE’S LIST DUCHESS OF WINDSOR PLACED SECOND Rec. 9.19 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 26. The Dress Institute today released the order of voting for the world’s 10 best-dressed women. Mrs William Paley, who headed the list last year, was again top this year; the Duchess of Windsor was second, and the Duchess of Kent fourth. The New York Dress Institute by mail each year takes a poll of about 500 newspaper and magazine fashion editors and well-known designers from coast to coast in the United States. Representatives of a handful of New York’s smartest restaurants are also questioned. The leading 10 comprised, in, order: Mrs William Paley, the Duchess of Windsor; Mrs Harrison Williams, a New York society figure; the Duchess of Kent; Mrs Leland Hayward (New York); Mrs William Randolph Hearst, jun. (New York); Mary Martin, musical comedy actress; Mrs Byron Foy (New York); Mrs Louis Arpels (Paris); and Mrs Kingman Douglas, of Middleburg, Virginia.