BRIDAL COSTUMES A CENTURY AGO.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3038, 21 February 1899, Page 3

BRIDAL COSTUMES A CENTURY AGO.

To begin with the lady: Her locks were strained upward over an immense cushion, and sat like an incubus on her head, and plastered over with pomatum, and then sprinkled over with a slower of white- powdei. The height of this tower was somewhat over a foot. One single white rosebud lay on its toy, like aji eagle op a hay-stack. Over her ■ u< c.k and bosom was folded a laqe handkerchief, fastened in front by a boson) pin, ruth or larger than a halfpenny, containing her grandfather's miniature set -in virgin gokl. Her airy form was braced up in a satin dress, the sleeves as tight as the natural skin of the arm, with a waist fanned by a bodice, worn outside, whence the skirl Cowed off and was distended at the top of the ample hoop. Shoes of white kid, with peaked toes, and heels of two or three inches elevation, enclosed her feet, ;.nd glittered with spangles, as her little pedal members peeped curiously out. Now for t lie swain: i! is hair was sleeked hack and plentifully beflouered. while his queue projected like the handle of a skillet. His coal was a sky-blue silk. lined with yellow; his long ve-t of white satin embroidered with gold lace; his bit eehes of the same material, and tied at the knee with pink ribbon. White silk Htoekin-s and pumps with laces. ami ties oft lie name hue, com-ph-.lrd the habiliments of his nether limbs. Li.cc ruffles clustered around his wrists, and a portentous frill, worked in correspondence am! bearing the miniature of Ins beloved, iinished his genteel appearance.