Jane with Kate

Jane as a Fashion Item with Kate

Jane as a Fashion Item with Kate

This photograph by Grif Griffith– another of Jane’s image mentors–is from a column in the October 1939 Cosmopolitan called “Fashions in Fiction” (10/1939).( Jane and Kate, appear on the cover of the same issue.) Columnist Lee Russell describes Jane in words that appealed to his young readers as much as her stories did: “She would rather be considered a glamour girl than a serious writer. She is both. She has a passion for smart clothes, hats and accessories. In New York she practically lives at “21″ in her best clothes, When in California she wears slacks and gay bandannas.” Griffith and his wife Debra also became Jane’s lifelong friends — she was his son’s Godmother.

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