In their review of Broadway costume design for the Fall of 1933, Stage Magazine asked the pressing question: “What is the well-dressed play wearing these days?” There was much talk of Chanel, Schiaparelli and the House of (Elizabeth) Hawes as he heaped the praises high for the the rag-pickers who clothed the actresses for such productions as Men in White, Undesirable Lady, Her Master’s Voice and Heat Lightning.
“The fashions in the plays are vivid, authentic, and wearable. They have sprung from the gifted brains and fingers of the cream of the crop of designers, Schiaparelli and Chanel in Paris, and our own industrious Americans who, themselves, are becoming hardy annuals. The silhouette is lengthening into slim height but even in sports clothes corners are rounded and curves are accentuated…”
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