BOUQUETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1906, Page 11

BOUQUETS.

■ Shower bouquets have had their day. They are not nearly so smart and fasii ionable as prim little bunches of flowers of various hues mossed as tightly as possibl.3 together. Shower bouquets, with long • strands of creeping fern, streamers of ribbon, and tangles of rosos artfully wired by the stem, had a nasty way of getting mixed up in the laco of a gown, and were altogether unwieldy, difficult things to manage. For years they were considered a necessary adjunct to a bride's costume, but they were really so huge, with their trails of roseo. and fern hancring sometimes over a dozen inches in length, that they often spoilt tho beautiful effect of a brida} dress. The dangling ferns, too, were frequently responsible for r,uining the front breadth beyond redemption with green staina The latest bouquets are formed of small flowers such as violets, baby roses, and snowdrops tied up very closely. A welldressed woman at a ball the other night sported (according to a Melbourne paper) a noiogay of this kind. She seemed co proud of it, too. In tho centre was a stiff bunch of violets, and round this, like a wreath, snowdrops were placed with almost mathematical precision. The posy was quito flat, and not a vestige of a leaf wae to be seen anywhere. There was this advantage about it, that it was easy to hold. The leviathan houquets, which liava for long been the perquisite of debutantes, are now replaced by small bunches of tiny white flowers, without ribbon streamers. They aro fixed into a kind of holder covered over and over with white glace silk, which is not so pretty nor so economical as the oldfashioned bouquet-holder of shiny paper lace.