IN GOLDEN GOWNS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 13

IN GOLDEN GOWNS

LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET

'■■ The new Lady Mayoress of London (Lady Collett) held -a dross rehearsal at a Paddington, W., salon fpr the re- - 'tinue of eleven girls who were to attend her at the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall (states the "Daily Mail"). A rehearsal was necessary, fpr of the three younger attendants, whose task it was to hold the train the youngest is only 3J, and of the eight grown-up maids of honour only one. had previously acted in that capacity. Lady Collett made a dignified entrance in her gold suede satin gown. Her gold-embroidered georgette train was faithfully upheld by tho small attendants, and the eight older girls followed, the shortest going first. The maids of honour wore gowns of sunshine yellow chiffon with sashes of gold, and gold roses on the corsage. They had head-dresses of swathed gold tissue, just a triple rim of gold worn at the angle of the modern beret. The child attendants had frocks of the same sunshine yellow, and headdresses of flat gold leaves on their curls. They wero grandchildren of the Lady Mayoress—Miss Mary Alexander, Miss Jane Alexander, and . Miss Margaret Collett. Miss Mary White, the only girl, who had acted as a maid of honour-before, was one of TLady Wakefield's attendants. Four of the grown-up girls were blondes and four brunettes.