Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1939)

™*WJH / BY FRANCES HUGHES, New York Fashion Editor Assisting Gwenn Walters, Fashion Editor EVEN the Irish are going Oriental! Geraldine Fitzgerald, new and bright little star in Warner Brothers' heaven, who won her spurs after her sensitive performances in "Dark Victory" and "Wuthering Heights," looks deeply into Photoplay's fashion crystal and sees you, herself and all smart women going Oriental for Fall! Wonderful way to work magic with your basic black dress! Your head swathed, like hers, in a Maharajah's turban of hand-blocked red and green silk surah, cinched with a giant gilded safety pin paved with pearls! Your neck hung, like hers, with heavy ropes of golden beads. Copy the matching bracelet wound around her wrist and — for good measure — wear dangle earrings that jingle like a Hindu dancing girl's. Now look into the crystal with Miss Fitzgerald and you'll see yourself carrying a draped suede dressmaker bag (top crystal) hung like a knapsack from glistening black bracelet handles. You will add gobs of jewelry to your simplest dresses, like the gold bead necklace (center crystal, left) of glittering dangles, golden medallions and a giant beaded tassel; or the nine-strand golden necklace (center) with a dripping, fringed tassel; or the twin strands (right) of silver tubes like Persian melons, with make-believe ruby and emerald and sapphire rondelles. Your gloves (bottom crystal) will be longer, worn crushed around your wrists and garnished with a wide, wide silver bracelet fit for a Maharanee. Your accessories may look heavy, but on you they'll be as light as a feather. You'll see! All Oriental loot from Macy's, New York 65