Nature abhors a vacuum, but Eleganza adores someone who dares to dress with panache, elan, and all the other French nouns that mean pizzazz. You might not go for the specific look that the three Los Angeles women who are this column’s stars have in common. But you can’t contest their pizzazz.

Texas Linda Jones (so called because of the expansiveness of her personality) twirls a black lace parasol as she strolls the streets of Los Angeles in ratted black hair, ultralurid psychoslut make-up, and see-through black lace clothing. The lead singer of her own group, Tex & The Horseheds, and a featured performer in the forthcoming Joan Jett movie, she’s been a distinctive dresser since earliest childhood. “I never did have a knack for normal dressing,” she blithely reveals. “Even in kindergarten I’d find myself wearing one red sock and one blue sock.”