A onetime May Co. and Bullock's saleswoman, who began designing her own line of clothes while she was in her early 20s. In her designs, she combined high style with simple elegance. By 1953, she began to design for Nellie Don in Kansas City. She later returned to Los Angeles and began using imported fabrics and unusual prints. By the 1960s, she was showing her popular designs at parties on her tennis court at her Holmby Hills home. Bullocks Wilshire, I. Magnin and Saks were among her clients.