Editing Edith Head (section)

==The Universal years==
In 1967, at the age of 70, she left [[Paramount Pictures]] and joined [[Universal Pictures]], where she remained until her death in 1981.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sauro |first1=Clare |title=Edith Head in Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion Volume 2 |date=2005 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=Detroit, MI |isbn=0684313944 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofcl00vale/page/191 191]–192 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofcl00vale |url-access=registration }}</ref> By this point, Hollywood was rapidly changing from what it had been during Head's heyday in the 1930s-1940s. Studio-based production was giving way to outdoors and on-scene shooting, and many of the actresses from that era whom she worked with and knew intimately had retired or were working less. She thus turned more of her attention to TV, where some old friends such as [[Olivia de Havilland]] had begun working. She designed Endora's clothing on ''[[Bewitched]]'', and made a cameo appearance in 1973 on the detective series ''[[Columbo]]'' beside [[Anne Baxter]], playing herself and displaying her Oscars to date. In 1974, Head received a final Oscar win for her work on ''[[The Sting]]''.

In the late 1970s Edith Head was asked to design a woman's [[uniform]] for the [[United States Coast Guard]], because of the increasing number of women in the Coast Guard. Head called the assignment a highlight in her career and received the [[Coast Guard Public Service Awards|Meritorious Public Service Award]] for her efforts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://media.defense.gov/2017/Jul/02/2001772357/-1/-1/0/WOMENFINDFAVORWCOASTGUARDFASHION.PDF |title=Women Find Favor With Coast Guard Fashion |first=Olivia |last=Smith |publisher=U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office|access-date=October 28, 2013}}</ref> Her designs for a TV mini-series based on the novel ''[[Little Women]]'' were well received. Her last film project was the black-and-white comedy ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'' (1982), starring [[Steve Martin]] and [[Carl Reiner]], a job Head was chosen for because of her expertise on 1940s fashions. She modeled Martin and Reiner's outfits on classic [[film noir]] and the movie, released in theaters just after her death, was dedicated to her memory.