Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women - 1960s

Richard Blackwell created The Ten Worst Dressed Women’s List in 1960. The following is the list for the decade of the 1960s

1969

* 1. Queen Elizabeth II ("Everything that is out of fashion is in with the Queen - Hail, Victoria!")
* 2. Barbra Streisand ("Yesterday's see-through...chemise, schlemeil, and 23 skidoo, and what happened to you?")
* 3. Raquel Welch ("From Welch - you could belch!")
* 4. Jacqueline Susann ("Tillie the Toiler gone bad in the Valley of the Falls - hair, that is!")
* 5. Goldie Hawn ("A peeled grape on the end of a pipe cleaner! Has the fickle finger of fashion passed her by?")
* 6. Carol Burnett ("Looks like the last float in last year's Rose Parade. Or, a Grandma Moses' painting of a petunia patch. Tacky, tacky, tacky, tacky!")
* 7. Doris Day ("Doing your own thing in blushing pink...but for thirty years?")
* 8. Shirley Temple ("The dimpled darling of the 'Good Ship Lollipop' wearing 'Disjointed Notions.'")
* 9. Mae West ("High camp exploding in a bon-bon factory.")
* 10. Ann-Margret ("Moisten lips...hair in flips...boots and sequins...what a miss?")

1968

* 1. Julie Andrews ("A Little Bo-Peep illustration for "True Love" magazine.")
* 2. Carol Burnett ("Looks like a tornado hit the bargain basement and Carol collected it all.")
* 3. The Lennon Sisters ("Should be called the 'Lemon Sisters', because their wardrobe hits a sour note. Someone should tell these young matrons that they aren't vintage 1945 June Allysons.")
* 4. Kaye Ballard ("Prince Valiant in a panty girdle.")
* 5. Vanessa Redgrave ("The rocket to stardom that launched Vanessa to success missed its target when she got dressed.")
* 6. Doris Day ("Has she stayed too long at the fair?")
* 7. Raquel Welch ("She may have a heavenly body but her clothes look like they were designed by the man in the moon - a real luna-tic.")
* 8. Cass Elliot ("Little Orphan Annie in gowns by Oscar Meyer.")
* 9. Brigitte Bardot ("Needs an architect instead of a designer. Brigitte's a real space odyssey - or is it a space oddity? We wish she would just go on her own Milky Way.")
* 10. Jane Fonda ("A real grown up Barbie doll. Aspirin, please.")

1967

* 1. Barbra Streisand ("Today's flower child who has gone to seed in a cabbage patch.")
* 2. Julie Christie ("The great actress of the year dresses like an Al Capp cartoon of Daisy Mae lost in Piccadilly Circus.")
* 3. Jayne Meadows ("A Barnum & Bailey circus in a telephone booth.")
* 4. Elizabeth Taylor ("Looks like two small boys fighting under a mink blanket.")
* 5. Julie Andrews ("A rejected cover girl for a Charles Dickens novel.")
* 6. Carol Channing ("The blonde bombshell who looks like George Sand caught in a wind tunnel.")
* 7. Raquel Welch ("A Dresden reproduction of Charles Atlas wearing Band-Aids.")
* 8. Ann-Margret ("A Hells Angels escapee that invaded the Ziegfeld Follies on a rainy night.")
* 9. Jane Fonda ("Stretch pants on angel food cake.")
* 10. Vanessa Redgrave ("A do-it-yourself kit on stilts that came unglued.")

1966

* 1. Mia Farrow ("A Girl Scout cookie in a martini at Arthur's.")
* 2. Julie Andrews ("A Plain-Jane Pollyanna playing Peter Pan at half-mast.")
* 3. Elizabeth Taylor ("A boutique toothpaste tube, squeezed from the middle.")
* 4. Ann-Margret ("Marlon Brando in a g-string.")
* 5. Carol Channing ("Finger paints, chicken feathers, and glue thrown into an electric fan.")
* 6. Maria Callas ("No Italian would have ever paid for those dresses! Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.")
* 7. Lurleen Wallace ("Next Monday's wash in a broken washing machine.")
* 8. Liza Minnelli ("Pop-art picture of a fried egg at sunrise, eaten by Auntie Em.")
* 9. Simone Signoret ("The Eiffel Tower without the Paris influence.")
* 10. Milton Berle ("With padded brassiere and corseted rear, the her that appears really isn't!")

1965

* 1. Princess Margaret ("A grand revival of "Charley's Aunt" with a rock 'n' roll beat.")
* 2. Barbra Streisand ("Ringo Starr in drag.")
* 3. Brigitte Bardot ("It's a good thing no one recognizes her with her clothes on because she dresses like Eve fleeing the Garden of Eden one step ahead of the cops.")
* 4. Mia Farrow ("Stretch pants on angel food with hot fudge frosting. She dresses like a 12-year-old and dates Frank Sinatra.")
* 5. Phyllis Diller ("Early disaster. One look at her and birds are ashamed of feathers.")
* 6. Julie Andrews ("Box pleats and old lavender direct from the Montgomery Ward 1940 catalogue.")
* 7. Yvonne Vendroux (Mrs. Charles de Gaulle) ("Behind every successful man there is a woman, and this one is about twenty years behind.")
* 8. Lucille Ball ("Halloween trick without the treat. Lucy, dear, shoulder pads went out with The Black Bottom.")
* 9. Bette Davis ("What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? She became Tallulah Bankhead cast as Marshall Dillon.")
* 10. Elizabeth Taylor ("In tight sweaters and skirts she looks like a chain of link sausages.")

1964

* 1. Barbra Streisand ("A tree grew in Brooklyn - dressed in tablecloth and furs. Claims she has furs for every occasion, but must be getting her occasions mixed. Her high black stockings and shoulder chain purse make one think of an unsuccessful hitchhiker.")
* 2. Jayne Mansfield ("After appearing like a stuffed sausage for many years, Jayne has resorted to the baby pink look - between baby doll shorties and darling pink bows for her multicolored hair, groomed not unlike the sweeping end of a broom. Has she in confusion borrowed her young daughter's wardrobe? Watch out, Mother Mansfield.")
* 3. Debbie Reynolds ("A caricature of Zsa Zsa Gabor who is a caricature of...well, I really don't know. Plug her in and there's your Christmas tree.")
* 4. Phyllis Diller ("Looks like a scarecrow hung on a clothesline after a heavy windstorm. Designers' mistakes and overturned trash cans have been coordinated to make her the most ridiculously worst-dressed woman.")
* 5. Cara Williams ("TV's most beautiful face! Looks as though she borrowed Salvation Army discards. Total loss of femininity. Should be playing the title role of "Hello Charlie".")
* 6. Pamela Mason ("Self-admittedly Los Angeles's greatest man hater: bouffant hair, years outdated, bangled sweaters - a look reserved for hand-me-downs, plunging necklines revealing a comically sensuous bustline and too many yards of flesh poured into too few inches of fabric. In a sum, a totally confused matron.")
* 7. Jayne Meadows ("May I have an aspirin?")
* 8. Carol Channing ("Painted lips, mascaraed eyes, wearing that bird of paradise. When "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is revived, her clothes will be in style again.")
* 9. Tuesday Weld ("Looks as if she just got out of bed and grabbed the top sheet for a gown, but that's Tuesday. Maybe we should see her on Wednesday.")
* 10. Carroll Baker ("It isn't what she does with clothes, it's what she does without them. She's a sexy girl if you like Huckleberry Finn.")

1963

* 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Heading the list for the third year, Zsa Zsa Gabor is awarded lifetime membership in the Worst Dressed club. I have your Golden Needle Award, Zsa Zsa, if you care to pick it up.")
* 2. Elizabeth Taylor ("Plunging neckline, deeper than should be legal; with plump bosoms, rounded hips, makes one think of the rebirth of the zeppelin.")
* 3. Shirley MacLaine ("Basically basic - feathers and furs on her look like costumes borrowed from the "Ziegfeld Follies".")
* 4. Sandra Dee ("Words fail me!")
* 5. Lena Horne ("Sings great, for Lena - shows bony shoulders and reminds me of a plucked chicken. You can't always look good, Lena, but you could look better.")
* 6. Barbra Streisand ("All stars have gimmicks, okay! But the tablecloth bit just isn't for stars. Greenwich Village is still a sideshow. Barbra, why reject your obligations to your audience? It's a good thing you didn't set a trend.")
* 7. Ginger Rogers ("When the Castle Walk is revived, she'll be back in style.")
* 8. Jill St. John ("Jill is a beauty, accessories by Woolworths, clothes by Bad Taste.")
* 9. Jayne Meadows ("Looks like all the stores in town had a sale - and she bought it all; what's worse, she wore it.")
* 10. Bette Davis ("The great lady of the cinema looks like a dowager queen from Delancey Street.")

1962

* 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Queen of the international set, she reminds me of the elephant in "Jumbo" with all its glittering trappings. Her outlandish entrances are a real farce.")
* 2. Rosalind Russell ("She's still Auntie Mame, and someone should remind her it was a comedy...slacks, bangles, headbands and beads. Oh, please!")
* 3. Brigitte Bardot ("A buxom milkmaid reminiscent of a cow wearing a girdle, and both have the same amount of acting talent.")
* 4. Dinah Shore ("She has tried every fashion at least once and still can't make up her mind. She's always Nashville's Little Miss Muffet, tossing kisses at a grade school pageant.")
* 5. Judy Garland ("Poor thing - apparently left all her fashionable clothes in that trunk she's always talking about.")
* 6. Ingrid Bergman ("If she had a brother Joe, he must have loaned her the clothes.")
* 7. Bette Davis ("Baby Jane's costumes aren't much different from the clothes I've seen her wearing around town.")
* 8. Lucille Ball ("Despite her great comedy flair, offstage she is a clown caricaturing an actress who borrowed her wardrobe from the studio costume department.")
* 9. Patricia Kennedy Lawford ("She has absolutely no fashion image, and is drab and colorless, like a poor relative.")
* 10. Laura Goldman ("Neiman-Marcus gown buyer: from head to toe, her "Tobacco Road" ensembles (regardless of price) make her the number one nominee for my 'I can't believe it!' list."

1961

* 1. Debbie Reynolds ("If you're going to be a girl, go ahead and be one, but be one mentally. Debbie simply can't project the style she tries for in her clothes. They make her look silly.")
* 2. Sophia Loren ("Sophia Loren, off the screen, is still the Italian shop girl she portrays in the movies. Someone should tell her that simplicity is not drabness.")
* 3. Marilyn Monroe ("In private life, Marilyn Monroe is a road-show version of herself. She should get off the stage.")
* 4. Jayne Mansfield ("Her plunging neckline has become a bare midriff problem.")
* 5. Lucille Ball ("If you can wear it, carry it. Lucy buys her clothes without any planning, then lugs around most everything else she owns. Her appearance is absolute confusion.")
* 6. Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Her arrogant independence in dressing makes her look like a clown.")
* 7. Diana Dors ("Nothing stylewise can be saved from this girl. Why bother?")
* 8. Kathleen Nolan ("She dresses for the same role, in "The Real McCoys", off camera too. I can't understand it.")
* 9. Connie Stevens ("She wears anything she can get her hands on and it shows.")
* 10. Shirley MacLaine ("Looks like everyone she knows has donated something to her wardrobe and she wears it all at the same time. In addition to this, she's a tomboy. She romps and rolls on the floor.")

1960

* 1. Anna Magnani ("The female counterpart of Emmett Kelly. One of the most distinguished actresses of our generation, who suggests Eleanora Duse playing in a Shakespearean tragedy wearing tramp clothes.")
* 2. Brigitte Bardot ("An unruly child who has acquired the bad habit of taking off her nightie before the bathroom door has been closed.")
* 3. Yvonne De Carlo ("A gypsy who stole a wine-red portiere from a window and draped it over her body in combination with a Kelly green couch cover.")
* 4. Lucille Ball ("One of our most gifted comediennes, she seems to bend over backwards to look ridiculous, and her greatest asset in this department in her clothes. Her preferences in fashion can best be described as a sense of turmoil, because nothing blends or complements.")
* 5. Anita Ekberg ("If a woman who wears a shoe two sizes too small is apt to suffer from bunions, I wonder what is the fate of one with a 39-inch bust who wears a size 16 dress? Miss Ekberg, in either street or formal wear, provokes the idea that she dresses with a shoehorn.")
* 6. Shelley Winters ("The only description for Miss Winters dressed for a party is a rag doll brought to the circus and covered with pink cotton candy.")
* 7. Carolyn Jones ("There is so little material between Miss Jones' bust line and the hem of her garment one wonders which will get where first.")
* 8. Kim Novak ("Lavender, like old lace, belongs in a bureau drawer, not on a torso with too great a frequency to offset it. She has adopted lavender as her trademark and is guilty of fabric redundancy.")
* 9. Anne Baxter ("She wears a sweater as if she were headed for the showers instead of the moonlight sail with a handsome escort. In formal attire her hair looks as if someone ran a brush through it and then said, 'Oh, the hell with it.'")