Television's Diors and Schiaparellis grind out wardrobes at so frantic a rate that one of them, Paul duPont, figures his eight-year total of costumes in the hundreds of thousands.
Assigned to the NBC "spectaculars," duPont allows himself a whole week to costume each of the 90-minute color extravaganzas.
For "Naughty Marietta," he whipped up 3000 yards of ruffles for a chorus of cancan girls. And for "Variety," he hastily designed a hoopless hoopskirt. for the dancers.
First duPont discusses ideas with producer Max Liebman. Then he broods, makes a few sketches, bastes a costume together, drapes it on a show girl and revisits Liebman.
"Then," says duPont, "Max tears it up, kicks it around, throws it out the window-and I start all over again."
No such drastic treatment, however, was accorded these duPont duds.
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