Motion Picture (Aug 1940-Jan 1941)

Darlin' — "p\IG 'way back in your closet and pull out those -*-' old tailored dresses you're tired of, 'cause Chic has found some perfectly elegant ways to make them over into this season's latest raves . . . I got my first inspiration from little Ann Rutherford, who spends her spare time thinking up trick things to pep up the clothes she's tired of . . . The day I talked to Ann, she was wearing a plain black wool dress, made along classic shirtmaker lines . . . What lifted this dress out of the ordinary was the full-gathered apron of brightly-figured challis which she had tied around her waist with a bow in the back . . . Simple, isn't it? And there's no end to the variety you can get if you put that old imagination to work ... If you have a plain colored cotton frock left from last summer, you can add a sarong skirt to it and be right up in the fashion parade . . . Gale Storm did that very thing with a white pique sport dress . • . She bought a huge Polynesian print cotton scarf — one of those triangular shaped things . . . Knotted around her waist with the point of the scarf hanging down the left side, she's right up to tiie minute with the current rave for native prints and costumes . . . 3^vcn the designers are going for this business of making two costumes in one with tie-on skirts and aprons ... I saw Ginger Kogers at luncheon the ether day wearing a costume from her latest between-seasons wardrobe . . . When I first saw Ginger, I thought she was wearing a tricky new coat, with a beige wool top, and the skirt of horizontally striped beige-to-chocolate wool. . . . Of course, I started to ooh and ah about her new coat, but Ginger put me in my place by showing me that it wasn't a coat, but a beige wool shirtmaker, with a skirt that buttoned on around the waist and gave that appearance. TF THIS sort of thing keeps up, you're going to have to be a cross between a sleight-of-hand artist and a strip teaser to get the most out of these multiple costumes . . . Using this idea of twoin-one, I saw Constance Moore pull a fashion trick the other evening that had the rest of the Hollywood gals standing around with their mouths open . . . It was at one of those parties which last from early afternoon and cocktail time to evening dancing . . . Constance had been looking cool and smart all afternoon in a navy blue linen dress with a -white pique bolero, topped off with a huge white pique cartwheel hat . . . Just before dancing started I went to the little girls' room to freshen up with some make-up. And there was Constance, buttoning a white pique floor-length flounce to the hem of her blue linen dress! . . . The buttons were concealed on the underside^ of the hem and when Connie finished her dressing by taking off her hat and pinning a diamond-and-sapphire clip in her hair, you would have thought she had just arrived freshly-dressed for the evening. C PEAKING of make-up, Paulette Goddard created 0 quite a sensation at the Victor Hugo the other after dark by wearing midnight blue lipstick and powder with a bluish tint . . . But let me warn you that it's a trick only a Goddard could use, so don't try it out on the boy friend if you expect to keep him hanging around . . .However, something he will go for is the use of fresh flowers ... I don't mean a corsage which he will have to buy himself, but just the casual use of a few blooms you pick from your own garden . . . At least Anna Neagle didn't lack for admirers the other night when she wore a full skirted organza gown with a single rose pinned in the folds of the skirt, just below the waist . . . Anna told me that she changes the flowers to fit her mood. When she feels particularly gay, she uses a nosegay of field flowers. ... I talked to a Hollywood florist the other day who told me that Anne Shirley has a tiny straw hat which she has him pin fresh flowers on . . . The day I was there he had just finished making a crown of tiny yellow rosebuds for her to wear to a dinner party . . . Speaking of Anne Shirley, she told me of a trick she uses with what she calls "foundation hats" that she thought you'd like to know about . . . These foundation hats are knotted turbans of silk jersey — one white and one navy blue . . . For wear with a dinner suit, Anne pins a jeweled pin in the center front, rajah style . . . The same turban, with a pottery or wood pin is just the thing to wear with sports clothes. Mile. Chic s.o.s. — s.o.s. Swell Music-but Wrong Girl Stay popular! 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