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Clothes gossip From Hollywood
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The flower-trimmed gown (above) Is worn by Lilian Harvey in "My Lips Betray." ■ Marlene Dietrich (right) wears this gown and hat In "The Song of Songs." Fashion has gone "flowery"!
DRESSES that look like flower gardens . . . hats that look like beds of packed pansies or violets . . . shoulder straps as abundantly flowered as the Wis of the South Sea Islands . . . these are Hollywood's fashion motifs for midsummer. Flowers, flowers, everywhere! On skirts, on bodices, on hats large or small. Handbags made of artificial violets . . . summer muffs made of artificial flowers . . . even a corner of Milady's handkerchief decorated with a small flat cluster of milliners' flowers ... all these only prove how insistently Hollywood studio designers have gone to flower gardens for the inspiration back of the new screen clothes.
Such adjectives as sleek, smooth and tailored have been temporarily shelved (at least until Autumn). Bows and flowers and ruffles — all stress
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Who's Wearing What and How Is Revealed in Motion Picture's Advance Fashion Tips from the New Pictures
ing femininity — are holding the center of the screen fashion spotlight.
Even Marlene Dietrich, of trouser fame, succumbs to bunches and clusters and bouquets of flowers in her r61e of the love enchantress in "The Song of Songs." Strictly speaking, the picture is in "cos
tume" period, yet we have the word of Travis Banton^ that a certain evening gown worn by Marlene and a certain flowerdecked hat could hold their own in the newest of fashion parades. Even the perky tilt of Marlene's hat cannot rob it of its