Will She or Won’t She?

Delta Burke of “Designing Women” says she has not yet decided what she’ll wear or who will design her wedding gown when she weds Gerald McRaney of “Simon and Simon” in May. Listen did learn that Burke stopped into the custom bridal shop of Anita Bachofer recently. Bachofer says what she would like to design for the sitcom siren is a butterfly-bustled, white satin dress embellished with Alencon lace, tiny pearls and a chapel train.

Leachman’s Locks

When Cloris Leachman appears on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” in February, she’ll wear her blond hair tousled on top, short on the sides. We know because her stylist, Angelo di Biase at Umberto in Beverly Hills, told us so. The segment was shot in Buenos Aires and Los Angeles. But Leachman has also been to Waxahachie, Tex., this year, to film “Love Hurts,” a spicy small-town comedy-drama. For her role as a mother, Leachman says she wears “a very tight little perm. I insisted on it.”

They Were Seeing Red

Melissa Gilbert, of “Little House on the Prairie” fame, and her husband, actor Bo Brinkman, flew in from New York to spend the holidays in Encino with Melissa’s mother. On Christmas Day the whole family turned out wearing red. Melissa wore a red silk maternity dress (she’s due to give birth this week). Sister Sarah, 15, who plays Darlene on the TV show “Roseanne,” turned up in a red wool outfit. And mother Barbara Gilbert wore a long, red hostess gown. They’re a great-looking family, says hair stylist Dusty Fleming, who was among the guests. Fleming adds that Melissa’s hair is red now too, courtesy of a new henna color job.

The Boutique Beat

We stationed our spy at I. Magnin’s new Giorgio Armani boutique in Beverly Hills, just to see who’s shopping in the spiffy chrome-and-mirrored shop. Here’s the report on some of those who showed in a recent week: Anne Bancroft (she bought a silk, cropped evening jacket), Mrs. Billy Wilder, Dinah Shore, Barrie Chase, Janet de Cordova and Mary Lazar.

Long and Short of It

We didn’t catch sight of Allee Willis or Cornelia Guest at last week’s opening of “generic art” by Richard Duardo and Shelley Lake at the Natoli Ross gallery in Santa Monica. But Andrea Ross was happy to fill us in. Guest wore a black suit with a one-button, embroidered jacket and wide-legged pants. “Somebody mentioned that everybody was dressed in black,” Ross adds. Not artist Andre Miripolsky, who wore a flower-patterned suit and matching shoes. And what was Willis wearing? Come to think of it, Ross hadn’t noticed: “I can never get past her hair.” (It’s long on one side, shaved on the other.)

What Do Women Want?

A recent gift-giving survey of men, conducted for women’s clothiers Alcott & Andrews, would be funny if it weren’t so sad. It reveals that men consider their wives/lovers or mothers as the hardest people to shop for. These two categories of women each claimed exactly 50% of the total response. When asked how their gifts to these women have fared in general, one-third of the men said their gifts are either exchanged or stowed in a place known only to the recipient, never to be seen again.