In the 1940’s white women really wanted to look like Ann Sheridan or Joan Crawford and they would run home after seeing movies like Mildred Pierce and sew shoulder pads into their gray serge suits. What’s happened since then? With luck you don’t see too many Sally Kellerman or Faye Dunaway imitations these days ... indeed, what would their “look” be? There was a brief Ali MacGraw hat craze; fortunately, it only lasted fifteen minutes. And TV is no different than films when it comes to creating contemporary fashion idols. No one could look like Cher except Cher, and thank goodness no one else really tries. And although it will be interesting to see if housewives all over America start pulling back their hair, wearing tinted glasses and chain smoking, I strongly doubt whether Pat Loud will start any new fashion trends either.

The Sixties taught us all to be individualistic and far out . . So everyone’s ended up looking,the same or dull, whether it’s denims or maribou. So much for that. Popstars have been copied beyond endurance; for awhile all the teenage girls looked like Janis, now, as Danny Fields recently remarked, they all look the way the GTO’s did five years ago.