The caption in Garden of Girls describes Louise as “a lovely little girl with divine figure who wears a dark yellow makeup over her entire face and body...No one knows why she does it because her own flesh is an adorable pink and olive shade which is most fascinating.”

Louise poses in pearls and some strategically-placed fabric for a photo session by Edwin Bower Hesser for the “art” magazine Garden of Girls, November 1925.

Alice Joyce by Alexander “Sasha” Stewart, London 1925. #botd

The full image:

Detail of a color print advertisement for Trouble in Paradise (1932) with Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall.

And lastly, Jean wearing the outfit in stills with Wallace Ford in The Beast of the City (1932).

A similar pose and the same Adrian-designed dress but a different setting for Jean in The Beast of the City (1932).

One more of Jean by Bull, 1932. Trivia: After playing in multiple short, mostly silent films as a child, Mickey Rooney had one of his earliest roles in a full length feature film — at the ripe old age of eleven — in The Beast of the City (1932).

Another take of Jean by Bull for MGM’s The Beast of the City (1932).

Jean Harlow by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1932. (Thread)