The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-10
Stars Ignore
Paris For
Fashions
By ORRY-KELLY
Famous Hollywood Stylist Writing
For International News Service

For international News Service
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 10 Il.
N. S.).-More and more the ten.
dency grows for Hollywood stars
to buy their clothes at home in
stead of invading the fashion sa.
Ions of New York, London and
Paris.
Kay Francis, about to embark
for Europe, will take with her sew
eral trunks full of tailored things
and evening frockS from Southern
California. Genevieve Tobin, who
used to name London as her ia
vorite shopping place, has been
buying lately in Hollywood and
Santa Barbara. she lives in
Montecito.
Jean Muir, whose one evening
dress was from Hattie Carnegie,
now has added another to her
collection" designed for her by
Milo Anderson at the First Ma
tional studio. And Josephine
Hutchinson's new spring outfit
was from the local Howard Greer.
So it looks as though my predic-
ton, made three years ago, that
HollyWood'S smart women would
be weaned away from Partisan in
fluence more and more in the fu-
ture, is gradually coming true;
and it should be remembered that
the stars now set the styles for
the world.
Black Is Favored
Josephine EIutchinson'S new
suit is black. she's one of our
most conservative dressers. with
a three-quarter length coat and a
beige blouse. With it she wears a
small turban-like straw hat, in
black, with a veil. And two cross
foxes.
Navy blue, however, has proved
most popular for the cinema girls
new spring costume. Among those
who selected it, with pink, red or
the yellow lemon combination 1
personally like so much, are Anita
Louise, Ann Dvorak, Olivia de
Haviland, Maxine Doyle, June
Martel and June Travis. White,
next best "runner-up" had for it's
opponents the smart Lois Wilson,
Verree Teasdale, Glenda Farrell
and Winifred Shaw, among 9TH
erS.
Ensemble Gowns
Ensembles, featuring a separate
dress with short jacket of the
same material and contrasting
trim, seems to be most liked also
for spring. A goodly share of the
costumes I have seen have taken
this form, tailored suits made
feminine by the addition of little
furbeloWS of gay color being sec,
ond in popularity for daytime
wear. Verree Teasdale, visiting
her husband, Adolphe Menjou, at
the Good Samaritan Hospital in
Hollywood, was seen recently
wearing a champagne-colored suit
with fine blue stripe, accesso,
ries being cocoa-brown except for
the blouse, which was white and
tailored. A magnificent neck.
piece Of fisher skins completed
the costume-which, by the way,
was far from being short, Paris
or no Paris.
Prints Popular
Prints continue to fascinate
with their new-found beauty. {.
and they're being adopted for
formal wear as we'll as for the
street dress and the afternoon
frock. .Merna Kennedy, the dash
ing Mrs. Busby Berkeley, wore one
under a full-length summer err
mine wrap recently to the Holly.
wood opening of Gold Diggers of
1885,. Bette Davis has a new
summer evening frock of clinging
crepe boldly printed in turquoise
blue, red, yellow, green and white
flowers. It has a train and an
off-the-Shoulder decolletage. and
Patricia Ellis chose it for an in
formal dinner gown in black chit
fon printed with red peoples in a
blue and yellow field Of daisies, the
neckline being tied and the Shout
derS covered with a be-ruffled
shawl collar.