Gail Chooses Wardrobe for Career-Woman
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Although professional women are on the whole better-dressed than any other feminine group ́in Anterica, they have usually been neglected by motion picture fas- hion authorities all too intent on glorifying debutantes, society leaders and assorted playgirls. : But now all that is bound to be changed, with Gail Patrick, who is often called the screen's best- dressed actress, taking up the cudgels for the nation's career- girls.
It is not only Miss Patrick's beauty and style that make her eminently fitted to speak out on this subject. She is a professional woman herself-a brilliant law student with great legal and poli- tical ambitions, who some day swears she'll be chief executive of her native Alabama. In her lat- est picture, "Disbarred," Miss Patrick's role of a modern Portia gives her the perfect opportunity to play the ideal wardrobe for the successful career-girl.
SUCCESS IN SUITS
The correct professional woman would as soon' be without a foun- tain pen as a smartly-tailored suit! Whether she is out to dazzle twelve men, "tried and true," on a reluctant jury, secure a fat con- tract from a susceptible business magnet or merely impress the "one and only man" at lunch, the tailored girl has the edge. In the trial scenes of "Disbarred" Miss Patrick cuts quite a figure in Edith Head's stunning black wool suit with
A black-and-white houndstooth tweed jacket and an amusing white tailored taffeta blouse. The tweed jacket has a collar of black velvet and a neck- line softened by a muffler of white taffeta with a hand-rolled hem, Miss Patrick tops off this costume with a shallow black velour sports hat with a vari-coloured,quill trimming.
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1989
Style Memos From a Career-Girl's Calendar
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Jaam.- Opening day at the trial... sports suit should wars 'em!
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3 PM Trial once) address to the jury wear something to dazzle 12 min.
Miss Patrick's second suit-out- fit is designed for those special
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WEDNESDAY
Noon - See President of International dil about that retainer-look Prosperous!
8.P.M.-Dinner with that handsome young lawyer-wear something festive!
Gail-Patrick, the girl-lawyer in Paramount's "Disbarred," pre- .sents the perfect wardrobe for the successful career-girl. ‘Ably qualified for the task by both her unmatched beauty and her years spent as a law student, Miss Pa- trick has chosen a collection which, although designed specifi- cally for the modern Portla by brilliant Edith Head, is the last word for any woman of the world of affairs. In her courtroom, scenes Miss Patrick sports a black wool suit with a striking hounds- tooth tweed jacket, ABOVE LEFT, and a coat-dress of red and, white tweed, LEFT.' Her evening gowns are a heavy white crepe with a white fox bolero, ABOVE, and a black lyons vel- vet, RIGHT. On gala occasions about town, Miss Patrick wet rs a wine-red crepe dress with luxurious bolero of dark mink, ABOVE RIGHT:
occasions on which the career- girl who is "in the money" wishes quietly to point out the fact! The dress is of wine-red crepe with shirring at the shoulders above short sleeves. Above a wide sash of self-fabric is a surplice bodice. The "gilt-edged touch" comes with the jacket-a bolero of dark mink, which is worn over the full- length coat of matching wine-red worsted Miss Patrick's pie-plate beret of felt is held to the head by a bandeau.
OPEN ALL NIGHT!
The law court, business offices and board-rooms may all be im- portant to the professional wo- man in their way, but the imprés- sion she makes on her evening. engagements can often make or break her career!. The evening clothes worn by Miss Patrick in "Disbarred" prove that she is tak- ing no chances! For that gala, festive evening, she has selected dinner gown of heavy white
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10 PM. - The Mayar's ball at the Ritz-better wear black!.
crepe with highlights of encrust ed crystal stones: Over it she wears a white fox bolero, with a wide sash of white crepe which winds about the waistline, tieing either in front, back or at one side.
"Better wear black" is Miss Patrick's slogan for the career girl invited to strictly formal af- fairs. She wears a black lyons velvet gown with a quaint, heart- shaped bodice and interesting shirred pieces of velvet over the dropped shoulder straps of elastic
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ROUGH IT IN COLOUR!
about For those afternoons town, when neither a suit nor a regular dress seems just right, Miss Patrick has chosen a coat- dress of red and white tweed. The outfit features a novel V-pocket, accented in dark red suede, also the fabric of the wide belt. A shallow hat of red suede, with red quill, and a large satched bag to match, complete the costume.
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