Brides looking for something old and something...

Brides looking for something old and something blue to wear to their weddings may be interested in this item: Shelley Long donated the ice-blue brocade suit that she wore on the fantasy wedding sequence in “Cheers” to the Carousel Ball auction to be held Oct. 12 in Denver. (Proceeds from the event, spearheaded by Mrs. Marvin Davis, go to help cure juvenile diabetes.) The Size 6 suit also comes with matching blouse, shoes and flowered veil.

Our recent chopstick perm story prompted Wendi Serena, wife of Beverly Hills hair stylist Eric Serena, to write immediately with news of two Japanese perms that call for plastic and cotton. The plastic perm, Wendi says, looks dramatic in the making (hair is “glued” to colorful panels with a special cream solution), and it’s “fabulous for giving body and luster to limp hair.” The cotton perm is a braiding technique that calls for two strands of hair and one strand of Japanese cotton. “The effect,” Wendi adds, “is the same textured look you get after you’ve had your hair in braids for days.” Along with his Oriental imports, stylist Serena is known to celebrity clients, such as Barry Bostwick and Nancy Sinatra, for his fancy “fan” bob and “two-comb” cuts.

Sweater girls: JoBeth Williams and Meredith Baxter Birney aren’t exactly look-alikes. But they do have at least one thing in common--an oversize, cotton knit sweater by L.A. designer Judy Graham of Topaz. Baxter Birney owns it in ivory, to wear on her TV show, “Family Ties.” Williams wears hers in “Poltergeist II,” a movie sequel being made now. Graham says Williams’ sweater was pink before filming began. But she can’t promise it will stay pink. “The sweater gets ‘slimed’ in the movie,” she says.

In case anyone had doubts, the big man with the double gold hoops in one earlobe and the zebra-striped jacket is very much interested in fashion. He’s saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. And he took Tuesday night, his night off from the band’s Coliseum stint, to discuss the subject. Clemons hosted a rather staid cocktail party, where you could nibble on carrot sticks and chopped liver, to promote Swedish designer Vivetti Konfetti (nee Vivienne Twilling), who designs Clemons’ personal and stage clothes, which tend to be bright, colorful and showy. Clemons said the designer has changed his idea of how to look. “I used to be kind of square and wore straight clothes. But now I’ve moved into the ‘80s.”

Where do you find clothes that look as if you’ve been living in the trenches and trekking through exotic lands? For Dee Wallace Stone, who plays a foreign correspondent/photojournalist in “Terror in the Sky,” an NBC-TV movie about a hijacked plane, the wardrobe came from Banana Republic in Beverly Hills. The single costume she wears throughout the film consists of a khaki camera vest with multiple pockets, khaki trousers, faded cotton safari shirt and green canvas camera bag.

Catherine Oxenberg can’t play Amanda on “Dynasty” all the time. One recent day, when she was herself, she put on an oversize sweat shirt and jeans, jumped into her Toyota convertible and stopped at the Cuttura shop on Melrose Avenue for Italian pottery. “She came in looking for large vases,” Christopher Smith of the shop says. “She said she is doing some redecorating at home.” Smith says Oxenberg admired a three-foot-tall, hand-painted $500 vase, but didn’t buy it. Perhaps she’s looking for something “Krystal.”

Recently,you may recall, we reported on celebs causing a run on Claudia Grau’s modern sportswear made from antique kimono fabric. Now we hear, again from Lisa Kramer of the Melrose Avenue shop, that Debra Winger dashed in, checked out the kimono collection of jackets and announced: “I’ll take this.” Maybe antique kimono fabric has a mystical quality we ought to look into.

What does a chic French woman, with a Chanel wardrobe at her fingertips, want to buy when she comes to Los Angeles? In the case of Chanel model Ines de la Fressange, who was in town for the West Coast launch of Coco perfume, it’s Reebok athletic shoes. Lots of ‘em. “I’m dreaming about wearing Reeboks,” she sighed, rattling off the colors she desires--”red, white, black . . . A friend of mine wears one red, one black.” She says she will wear them with Chanel trousers and tuxedos. “Why not? Coco Chanel, between you and me, was crazy. She wore trousers that belonged to boyfriends, huge fake jewelry and crazy hats with flowers. For Elle (magazine), I wore Levi 501s with a Chanel jacket, and I thought the chairman of Chanel would kill me, but Chanel is not a square house.”