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The honors go to Joan Crawford who leads them all in
By DOROTHY SPENSLEY
IN HOLLYWOOD, city of superlatives, each film star has one thing that is greater than the next. Dietrich's legs are tops, Garbo has more glamour (let's not argue this), Bob Taylor is most popular. The honors for being the most copied go to Miss Joan Crawford.
You will know what we mean if you have battled your way through huge puffed sleeves, starched jabots that threatened your jugular vein, "wind blown" bobs, "vagabond" hats that zipped over the right eye, brightly daubed lips, Zulu sun-tan, slacks, gardenias, wide-lapeled polo coats, no stockings, sandals, shining noses, enameled nails, nails with no enamel, unplucked eyebrows. Joan inaugurated most of these.
From the time that La Crawford first flashed into Hollywood's firmament with her thumb-wetting, finger-snapping "hey-hey" girl in Dancing Daughters. to the present Last of Mrs. Clicyncy (you should see the beetle-backed tweedy suit coat she wears in this! . . . oh, well, you will — by the hundreds) she has been a style-setter. She has changed the fashion notions of a nation of women. Even a world of women. From Boston to Budapest to Bali they copy the way she walks, the way she dresses, the way she does her hair, the way she trains her brows, paints her lips.
Joan, herself, is aware of this, but she doesn't seek to .stimulate it. "If I am copied, it's because of my clothes," she says, "and Adrian designs those, so Adrian is responsible for all of that.''
However, Adrian, Metro's designing wizard, does not design the curve of her brow, the cut of her hair, nor does he suddenly decide that she is to abandon
Joan's white organdy dress, worn in Today We Live, was widely copied, likewise, the Letty Lynton puffed sleeves
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Joan set a style for wearing hats over her eye and also for abandoning stockings and adopting sandals
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