FRENCH EXPERTS CHOSE BEST DRESSED WOMEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 106, 21 May 1937, Page 14

FRENCH EXPERTS CHOSE BEST DRESSED WOMEN

v The French autocrats of fashion— Lanvin, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Lelong, Mainboeher, and the rest — have issued their annual proclamation announcing the world 's ten best-dressed women. Their decision has caused a flutter in tho ranks of the leading Continental and English designers. Mxs Harrison Williams, whose green ejes and silver hair have made her a notable figure among New York's elegunt hostesses, is rated the (with a capital T) most fashionable woman in any country. She is wealthy, .but is prouder of her taste in clothes and jewels than of her money and position. Second on the list is tho Hon. Mirs Eeginald Fellowe3, daughter of the late Duc Decazes et. Glucksbierg, widow of Priuce Jean dp Broglie. She lives in Frunce, has written a book on "Cats xu the Isl6 of Man," and, in 1935, lent iier yacht to the then Prince of Wales. Tli.id place was awarded to' Senora Martinez de Hoz, and fourth to the Fr.:-nch-born Begum Aka Khan, nee Audree Carron, whose favourite eolour is white. The beautiful Baroness Eugenie de Eothschild, hostess at Enzesfeld to the Duke of Windsor, ranxs number five. The Baroness, born Kitty Wolf, m Bavaria, married, at 20, a Philadelphia dentist named Daudridge Spottswood, and, after her divorce, became Ciiuntess Schouborn, wife of the Counsellor of j the Austra-IIungarian Kmbassy in ; Paris. After cnlbracing the Jewish • faith, sho became the Baroness de j llothschild. Mrs Itickard Norton, Lady Brownlow's sistor, is givcn sixth jilaco. Sevouth is the Prussiau Baronin Gisela von Kricger, who has a dazzling complcxion and nalural rcd-gold hair. Eightli in thc last was placed Princess Charles Mural, and ninth the Duchess of Leeds, who, beforo her marviage m 1933, was Mlle. Marianne de Malkbaj Izouny, of Yugoslavia. Wliite is her ! favourite eolour, both for slci-ing and cvening dress. ■ Amerlcan-born Mrs I llonald Balcolm is ranlied tenth.