WEDDING VEIL NOTIONS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6538, 21 February 1928, Page 4

WEDDING VEIL NOTIONS

Modern brides are showing a lot of originality in the choice of their wedding frocks, and especially with regard to the veils accompanying them. Wedding veils are not the cumbersome things they were. Some brides only have a suggestion of lace that is brought round the face in soft folds and allowed to hang just past, the shoulders, states a writer In an exchange. Others have tiny caps made of,!ace or close emmbroidery, with just a touch of orange blossom at the sides, the short veil appearing at the back, where it is attached to the cap. Sometimes these caps are so severely cut that they resemble the popular helmet hat that is now every woman’s regulation day wear. ; When Norma Shearer, the., pretty Canadian film star, was married to Irving Thalberg, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, recently, she chose a simple frock of ivory velvet, fairly long in the skirt and embroidered with pearls and rhinestones.; the original touch, lay in the yoke, which was made of finest rose point lace. The veil was arranged like those on our newest hats, hanging in a tiny lace frill oyer the face. , ;j You don’t often see a bride carrying colours in her boquet. This one mixed purple ana yellow sweet peas with the white orchids and lilies of the valley which formed hers,,

Mignonette green Minanose silk makes a very charming afternoon gown, lightly embroidered on collar, belt and bow in silk the shade of the flowers The pleated front is an interesting feature of this model; so, also, is the shoulder yoke which lends a shirt-blouse effect to the bodice.