Debbie Reynolds – Take six

This is a 1966 Lydia Lane article. Enjoy!

Can tiny girls follow high fashion? Debbie Reynolds says yes, “But you have to work harder at it. You can never say, ‘I’ll take it right of the rack. You have to have it made or scaled down to your proportions or have it ordered in your size.” Debbie was wearing an attractive pink coat with black buttons. “It is a size 4, and I waited four months for it.” She confessed that after being so long in convent robes for “The Singing Nun” she has a renewed interest in clothes. “You don’t have to have a lot of money to be chic,” Debbie continued.

“Many women who spend great sums on their clothes are tacky. Knowing how to dress, having a knowledge of fashion, is acquired from example, from the leadership of others who express their good taste. “One of the hardest lessons to learn is to know how to shop. When I first had a contract and my own money I filled my closet with clothes, but it was a closet full of nothing. At that point I had not learned not to fall for the fashion booby traps, the gimmick trims.

“You will never be well dressed until you become aware of the hidden values of tailoring, seams and perfect fit,” she said. Another mistake is to fail to make your vision of your self contemporary. “Some women find it difficult to let go of their graduation day image. Perhaps they are not clinging to youth, but they have failed to take stock of themselves. They are resistant to change.

It is necessary from time to time to check your habits and ask yourself if the style of your hair and dress are right for you now.” There are certain age barriers in fashion that should be observed. “Youth has always dressed in some way to indicate re a lack of cleanliness!” Debbie exclaimed. “With proper supervision children should have instilled in them that a daily bath, regular shampoos and wearing clean clothes is a form of good manners. “It seems to me that this vogue for appearing dirty in public is an outward sign of inner decay. We are in a state of moral decline, and nothing will arrest it but faith, a belief in God.”