Dolly Tree 18991962 had an international reputation as a designer for stage and screen costumes during the 1920s and 1930s in London, Paris, New York and Hollywood.She was Englands leading stage designer during the 1920s and her ingenious costumes proliferated in major revues, musicals, pantomimes and cabaret in London and the regions. Dolly Tree was also involved in designing costumes for the British film industry and was allied to the couture house of Jean Peron.Her work also had a great vogue in Paris where she became the first English person and the first woman to design for the Folies Bergere. In New York in the late 1920s she became famous for creating the quintessensial 1890s look for Mae West and it is believed that she was one of the first designers to propogate the use of the strapless evening gown. Finally Dolly Tree became one of Hollywoods major screen designers, working for MGM during the 1930s. Here she maintained the style and glamour of costume for which MGM was famous, designing elegant creations for Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Rosalind Russell, Virginia Bruce and Judy Garland, besides the historical costumes for the classic David Selznick movies such as Viva Villa, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities. Despite the excellence of her work and the broad scope of her achievements, misinformation in many forms surrounds Dolly Tree. She has been consistantly overshadowed by the accomplishments of others and as a result her work and achievements have been wrongly overlooked and ignored. For example, her work at the Folies Bergere in Paris has been eclipsed by the towering edifice of Ertes shrewd self publicity and in Hollywood the excellence of M G Ms publicity machine has relegated her to a position of relative unimportance at the expense of glittering praise for Adrian.

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