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Marlene Dietrich in costume tests for the Paramount Pictures/Josef von Sternberg drama The Devil Is a Woman, 1935.

Miss Dietrich’s costumes in the film were designed by Travis Banton.

Dietrich once went on a shopping spree at the fashion houses of Paris during a vacation in the mid-1930s. Racing from
atelier

to
atelier, she had very little time for fittings and decided her glove maker should cast a mold of her hand and use it to create gloves on instead. When she received a box of beautiful custom-made leather and velvet gloves a few weeks later, she excitedly began to try them on and then burst out laughing when she realized she couldn’t move her wrist of fingers in the rigid, too tight gloves, a situation created by making them on the immobile plaster replica of her hand. She kept them anyway and wore them for portrait sessions, marking the box they were contained in “Gloves—Publicity Photos ONLY!!!” knowing they were unwearable in films or in her daily life.

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