Fashion Forecasts.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19122, 6 June 1934, Page 4

Fashion Forecasts.

HOLLYWOOD NOTES. “CLEOPATRA” JEWELLERY. POPULAR MODERN TREND. Leading jewellers of the world are turning the calendar back 2000 years and cribbing some of the ideas which Cleopatra made popular in her day, according to notes from the fashion centres. Details for the new jewellery trend are being borrowed from Cecil B. De Mille’s production of “Cleopatra” at Paramount. The Queen of Egypt’s grand passion for- jewellery made it necessary for De Mille to have jewellery designers and manufacturers workng for nearly a year, reproducing from authentic research detail the elaborate adornments which were paid; of this beauty’s creed. In the old Roman and Egyptian days there were no carved stones,' but nearly all pieces of jewellery were studded with lovely cabochons. Rubies, emeralds and pearls were in favour. Intricate collars and bracelets of beaten gold were the rage. One of Claudette Colbert’s most seductive costumes for the picture has a set of flat gold chips strung together in layers and fitted in true Egyptian style around her throat. Bracelets with six layers of flat gold chips are worn with this, adding emphasis to the floating quality of her draperies. The head-dress that goes with it is fashioned from small gold beads, forming a bandeau with the symbolical sacred wings over her ears. FILM STAR’S PREFERENCE. VIEWS OF DOROTHY DELL. The fashion views of Dorothy Dell, making her screen debut in Paramount’s “Wharf Angel,” are in contradiction of what an ex-Ziegfeld Follies girl might be expected to reveal. Instead of expensive ideas about rich fur and fine fabrics, accented by costly jqwels, Miss Dell expresses a preference for modest, casual clothes. She scorns the slightest tendency to be impressive in one’s dress. “I hate to see women attract attention by clothes which are too elaborate for their own individual type. I dsilike mannishly tailored things, but I often wear semitailored clothes with some very distinctly feminine highlights.” This attractive young player , also declared that the clothes she likes most to wear are sweaters and skirts. This seems a strange theory for a Follies girl, and disproves, Miss Dell hopes, that all these beautiful girls must' be drapped in sables and bedecked with diamond bracelets. “I never wear jewellery,” she declared, “because it makes me feel semi-conscious. For the same reason I dislike evening clothes, for I always feel that I have too many hands and feet. Of course, some of the costumes I wear are very extreme, but they are necessary in my professional warbrobe just as properties are necessary to the stage setting.”