WORN ONCE AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 5

WORN ONCE AGAIN

Historic Bridal Veil ; Eight women dressmakers',, directed by their chief—a man—arrived at St. Margaret’s, -Westminster, on 17, to arrange the bridal train of. Miss Margaret Livingstone-Learmonth, jvho was married there to Mr. Peter Wiggin, of the 11th Hussars. . ' ■ . The dressmaking corps took up a position at the bottom of the centre aisle, and, as Captain Noel LivingstoneLearmonth escorted his daughter from the porch, took charge of her train, which wag draped in a roll over one arm. . A procession of 14 tall,. slender bridesmaids in white dresses and crimson velvet sashes moved forward into their places in front of the bride.' She, with a veil'of. old Brussels lace, which was made for Lady Jane Seymour—one of the wives of Henry Vlll—draping her ;angel-skin gown, stood still behind them. ■ ■ As the dressmakers, four on each ■ side, slowly unrolled; the magnificent train, six yards long, from the cellophane paper in which it Was wrapped, the music from the organ and the sinking of the choir helping to deaden the “crackle” of the protective wrappings.' The dressmakers’ work took so long that, before the bride had reached tfie chancel steps, the processional hymn had finished, and. she and her attendants —who included four small train bearers—completed the last few yards in dead silence. ;

Miss Livingstone-Learmonth belongs to<a group of girls who made their debut with Mrs. Charles Sweeny, better known as Miss Margaret Whigham. One of her contemporaries, the young Countess of Warwick, provided the “something borrowed, and something blue” with which every bride goes to the altar, in the shape toff the satin garters she herself recently wore at her wedding to the Earl of Warwick.