Designing Mother

It’s a boy! And his mother, actress Pam Dawber, says he’s due to be born any minute. More to the point (this is a fashion column), Dawber says pre-motherhood has made a fashion designer of her. It started on her way to the Golden Globe awards show this winter, when she went shopping for something to wear. “Everything made me look like a circus tent,” she said. So she asked a wardrober for her TV show “My Sister Sam” to expand and slightly alter an oversize jump suit she had in her own closet and make a version of it in silk velvet. That led Dawber to design a five-piece maternity wardrobe of interchangeables in quiet colors and prints. It’s her solution to what’s wrong with maternity clothes: “They aren’t the least bit sexy,” she says. Dawber is talking with a manufacturer now about mass-producing her designs. By the time that happens, she says, she and her actor-husband, Mark Harmon, will have agreed on a name for their baby boy.

In the Thicke of Easter

Rick Pallack says the possibility of dressing Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck did cross his mind when he got a Disney wardrobe call recently. But the request was for Alan Thicke, who will host Sunday’s ABC Easter special from Disney World. Pallack put together four combinations using walking shorts, slacks, shirts, socks and sweaters in shades of teal, cream, taupe, lavender, fuchsia and pink. “Easter colors,” he tells us. What about Easter hats? Not a single one is coming from his Sherman Oaks store. “There aren’t any bonnets, and nothing with eggs on it,” he assures us.

Prepared for Matrimony

Robin Wright may be the Princess Bride in the recent big-screen movie, but on “Santa Barbara,” the daytime TV soap she plays in, the bride of the week is somebody else. Marcy Walker, whose past excitations on the show have included a trip over a cliff and a swim in shark-infested waters, is getting married on today’s episode. And her outfit sounds like one for the storybooks: 35 yards of silk, an 8-foot-wide hoop skirt, petticoats to form more layers than a puff pastry and a bodice of roses, bows and even bells, styled by the show’s costume designer, Richard Bloore. Just in case of disasters (it’s a cliff-side ceremony), the bride is wearing silk long johns underneath.