SURREY WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 17

SURREY WEDDING

WELLINGTON BRIDEGROOM

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London

Representative.)

LONDON, December 19.

At Shirley Parish Church, Surrey, on December 16, the wedding took place of Pilot-Officer Francis Gerald Bowling, R.A.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Bowling, of Wellington, to Miss Muriel Gwendoline Nott, only child of Mr, and Mrs. S. P. Nott, of Addiscombe. When Mr. Bowling first came to England he was at Croydon with Imperial Airways. There he met his bride, who was a private secretary to one of the departmental heads of Imperial Airways, The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. Willis. Mr. Nott gave away his daughter, who wore a most becoming dress of ivory chiffon velvet, and a wedding veil of net which was 15C years old and had been worn by hei mother and her grandmother, Hei bouquet was of deep red roses and lilies of the valley. Miss Marjorie Wes ley, the bridesmaid, wore a dress oJ blue chiffon velvet and carried a posji of flowers in red, white, and blue Pilot-Officer Anthony Eyre, R.A.F., was best man. . . After the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs STott held the reception at St. Mildred's Sail. Some New Zealand friends were present. After the honeymoon the bridegrooir and bride will go to Peterborough where the former is stationed. He was granted short leave. Chat, feom ■' Paris"' '; TUNICS FOR DINNER WEAR (By Margret Manet.) The longer line tunic is meaning to catch us up in the autumn, so it' is as vvell to make up our minds to it and plan a modish one. Actually, it is wise to stock your wardrobe with two— one strikingly original and one that is unobtrusively chic—and a: plain but interestingly cut skirt to accompany b.bth. ' ... The skirt; is important, so see that i,t is cut for height and grace. Most

of the season's models have fitted front panels, flat on the hips with slight fulness drawn to the centre back. If the back is cut to flare straightly to the slightest of trains it will increase perpendicular inches with flattering effect. Clever cutting can overcome the shortish woman's prejudice against stiff silks and figured brocades. : SOPHISTICATED LINES. Tunics, for the most part,'are cut on rather sophisticated lines, but sashed demurely with ends that tie or loop,, either to side or centre front. Posies. are often worn as waist decoration, j One example has a neck squared in front, but with fullness taken from either side to form a fold. that continues narrowing to the waist. The sleeves of this tunic are, caught up in many horizontal pleatings that run down the outer arcn to near the elbow, when the sleeve becomes a fitted one to the wrist. A basque of similarly; caught-up pleatings is worn bustle-; wise across the back. The waist in front is trimly belted and buckled. Charmingly feminine is the example sketched for you. The little frills that run diagonally arc both peaked at their edges and gathered flat. The bodice is perfectly plain in cut and with back fastenings. A trim little contrasting ribbon marks the waist.