Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1925)

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26 Pictures and Pichurepver FEBRUARY 1925 Modes //?£Ae Movies The Wardrobe Mistress is one of the most important personages in the Studio, for even the greatest of producers must defer to her upon questions of clothes. Twelve years ago, Clara Kimball Young went into a Broadway Kinema and watched herself act in a Vitagraph two-reeler wearing an evening-frock composed of butter-muslin and cotton lace. An hour later, she sat in another cinema and saw another Vitagraph picture featuring Ella Hall and the same frock ! Chiefly owing to the feminine fans, the dollar-a-day dress allowance is now as extinct as the Dodo and those early movie houses whose walls would quiver alarmingly when the heroine stamped her foot. Nowadays the wardrobe mistress is one of the most important personages in the studio and can expend as much money as she likes. .X. • Famous-Lasky have a special fashions bureau in Paris, from which the latest news regarding the length of a skirt or the shape of a sleeve can be swiftly transmitted to Hollywood. Their representative is often on the lawns at Ranelagh and Hurlingham, scanning the gowns displayed there with an eagle eye. Girls who pine to break into the movies, here is a tip for you ! Study the pros and cons of dress designing and take up wardrobe work. It is infinitely easier to gain a footing in this direction than it is to fight your way to importance by the usual means. Dull, you exclaim? Not a bit of it! Think of the joys of concocting your schemes from the most beautiful and expensive materials, and of being consulted deferentially by the Great Producer whose wrath may wreck an actress's career. No dieting:, no worry Reading downwards . Corinne Griffith is the wardrobe mistress's delight. Eleanor Boardman in one of her ultra-elaborate " Souls For Sale" costumes. Right : Ethel Traill draping one of Norma Talm a d g e' s early Victorian dressing gowns. <4 This black velvet and silver crcatton u>as specially designed for Leatrice Joy's wear in " Triumph." ing about your popularity returns, and a salary cheque just as fat as the star's, if not fatter ! With modernity assured, the main problem for the wardrobe mistress is to match the clothes with. the. part. If she's dressing May McAvoy or Gladys Walton for a flapper role, then she must concentrate on fluffy tulles and impertinent little hate and ultra high-heeled