Made in California

California's dressmakers whooped it up for their new fashions. (Items: a baby blue fur coat, a $50 hand-painted bathing suit, a girdle decorated with cherubs lolling on clouds.) Cole of California readied an aquacade, Catalina Mills had a Catalina Island beach show, Tabak of California was going to parade his models on the rim of the Grand Canyon.

Last week, California's stylists got some publicity they had not counted on. As Hollywood's pretty designer Dede Johnson paraded her new styles on the rim of the Canyon, she fell over the edge, landed on...

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