The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
WORLDS TEN
BEST DRESSED
WOMEN NAMED
Famed New York Hostess Is
Voted Americas Most
Beautiful.
CONSERVATISM FAVORED
Several Former Queens of
Wardrobe 0uSted in
Paris Poll.
BY MARY KNIGHT.
United Press staff Correspondent
(Convrirht 1913 hv United Press


PARIS, Dec. 22.-Ten among the
millions of beautiful, we'll gowned
women of the world were elected
today to the halls of feminine i'm
mortality as the best dressed women
in the world.
A pool of leading Paris dress
makers showed surprising accord
and resulted in the unseating of
several previous queens of the
wardrobe.
Mrs. Harrison Williams, Fifth
Avenues famed hostess, polled the
greatest vote as the best dressed
women of New York and of the
United States.
Dark, stately, with a lovely COM
plexion, she leans toward bright
colors and her costumes this season
favor reds, blues in all shades and
black. She wears gorgeous jewels
and furs.
Mrs. Williams was Mona Shrader
Bush, of Lexington, KY. She mar
ried Harrison Williams, utilities
magnate, in 1926. They live at 113O
Fifth avenue and Palm Beach.
Likes Black and White
The Baroness Eugene De RothS-
child is the best dressed woman in
Paris. She entertains extensively
in her elegantly furnished town
house and at her country chateau.
She is typically Parisienne in her
love of black and of black and white,
and wears beautiful diamonds, uses
the finest perfumes and has an air
of complete distinction.
London's fashion queen is the
honorable Mrs. Richard Norton,
tall, slender and dark eyed. She
is a frequent visitor in Paris and
travels extensively in both Europe
and America. She likes soloid col
ors, rich materials and bright &C
ceSSorieS.
Other winners in the fashion
election, for their countries, we're:
the Princess Colonna of Rome; the
Duchess D'Alba of Madrid; the
Countess DeSaab of Carlo; Nine.
PaZ de Anchorena, Buenos Aires;
the Baroness Won Krieger, Anster-
dam and The Hague; the Countess
Georges Potocky, Istanbul, and the
countess Jean Theotoky, Athens.
Many Others Honored
These ten women by no means
end the list of ultra smart dreSsers
as indicated by Paris couturiers. An
imposing list of names and titles
could be made up of those included
in the voting - the extraordinarily
chic Begun Aga Khan, the Ma
harani Holkar of Indore daughter
in-law of the former Nancy Miller
of Seattle), Princess Nicholas of
Rumania, Princess Dora RuSpoh
and Marquise Nicoletta Visconti of
Rome, the Duchess D'Arion of
Spain, Countess Zouboff and Coun-
tess Arrivabenem, twin Italians who
live here. and the Princess De
Bourbon Parma.
Smart New Workers include Nine.
Arturo Peralta Ramos, the former
MillicenJ Rogers; Mrs. Flora Whit
ney Sebastian; the Baronne Cartier
de Marchienne, American wife of
the Belgian ambassador at London;
Mrs. Hector Mum, Mrs Benjamin
Rogers and Mrs. George Baker.
Lady Mendl, the former Elsie De
Wolfe, long has been famous for her
sport ensembles.
The outstanding feature of the
costumes of these women, whose
smartnesS is now enjoying interna-
tional reputation. is said by the
Paris dressmakers to be that of
conservatism. with a rare and well
chosen use of eccentricity. Richness
of material. sobriety of color. en-
phaSis on line and design adapted
to each personality are the A-B-C's
of the queens of fashion.