Show Kc i. i 1 I i b F V. V Wide Wide World Photos Inc Gwen holds up some looking exotic material she will use usein usein usein in a costume design for one of the Twentieth Century Fox Century Fox players In the se sewing ing room lots of dressmakers' dressmakers dummies stand around so l labeled on Jane Withers Carole L Landis Ginger Rogers and W Wardrobe a rd robe Expert Gets Cray Gray By Dy SIGRID AR ARNE E HOLLYWOOD Wide World World World- Gwen has probably put glad rags on as many famous but beautiful women as anyone in America She now designs d des e s I g n s clothes for the stars in Twe Twentieth Twentieth- Century Fox Century Fox pictures Gwen is a a. slight gracious person person per per- son whose hair is going gray gray gray- prematurely Well We'll soon see why She was gulping coffee black There were blue circles under her eyes It was 9 a a. a m. m Her office was littered Been up all night Sorry if the place looks frantic she said Why I Linda Darnell she said That green suede jacket If I ever er see seea a a. bicycle again She poured me some coffee and told the story of the night before It seems Linda Lind had nad a a. specially specially- designed green suede jacket to wear in one tiny shot in the picture picture picture pic pic- ture Rise and Shine At one point she was supposed to take it off knot it around the handle bars of ofa ofa ofa a bicycle and then lean the bicycle against a bridge railing That scene had been shot the day before before only only the bicycle rolled down the hill into the creek carrying carrying car car- the jacket into tho the water Gwen and her staff had to sit up all night and make another jacket so the shooting could go on Five new gray hairs s a said a I d ci Gwen with a a. grimace at her mir mir- Perhaps this is the point to tell what it takes to clothe cloth a star for fora a picture Take Tyrone Powers Power's wardrobe for Son of Fury That was designed by Herschel nb no other other oth oth- er tag who copartners with Gwen He does the mens men's clothes First the staff researched mens men's clothes for about 1790 and did water color sketches on each of the 27 costumes Power wears in the picture Then detailed descriptions were written for the tailor down to things like this bottom buttons seven inches apart second set seven and a half Belt Beit two and a quarter inches wide fob three inches And so for 27 costumes The tailor cut and sewed Then Power did some groaning He had to fit each of those costumes Then two books are made for forthe forthe forthe the wardrobe master Power was photographed in each costume That made one book Then detailed instructions were written on each costume costume so so hed he'd show up in the same hat for instance in a tavern scene The scenes are shot in such small pieces that without t this his h I s check you might see Power hang up a derby and five minutes later take down a topper Gwen says that kind of fitting- fitting room torture goes on for all the i stars She took me out into the sewing room Lots of dressmakers' dressmakers dummies stand round labeled Jane Withers Carole Carob Landis Ginger Rogers and so on Its It's pretty funny to see the ladies' ladies million dollar figures without their pretty faces They bulge where and how you'd never think Gwen says Bulges arent aren't bad Its It's the sway-backs sway that get us down You have to hide them with Eton jackets and stuff Then the stars have phobias Dolores Del Rio creeps at the sight of pearls She simply had to wear some in a recent picture but every minute she wasn't working she parked the pearls with a maid Maureen OHara O'Hara wont won't have a athing athing athing thing red around Carole Landis goes ga-ga ga in green Technicolor is another headache Gwen designed a pretty yellow dress for Alice Faye to wear in Hollywood Cavalcade Alice was supposed to wear it standing on ona ona ona a red tile roof against a blue sky She did And groans rose from the camera crew Somehow the combination combination combination combi combi- nation turned Miss Fayes Faye's hair a sickly green The scene had to tobe tobe tobe be postponed until Gwen could run up another version of the dress dressin in in blue |