BEAUTIFUL WEDDING GOWNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 6 (Supplement)

BEAUTIFUL WEDDING GOWNS.

Glints of silver and gold have become so great a part of the present mode that we are hardly surprised when this is introduced into a wedding gown. Both on the Continent and here in America touches of silver have been introduced into the fashionable bridal robe.

It remained for a French dressmaking firm that has opened a branch house in New York to design silver and gold gowns for an American wedding. The bride's dress was of creamy white lace flat flounces sparkling with a silver thread design over under-layers of white chiffon, which added to it* filminess. The train was extremely original. From beneath the short bouffant skirt at the back fell a very wide breadth of white chiffon, as broad as the very wide long veil which it lined. This removed entirely the odd look that the short wedding "dress and the long veil has generally had up to date, 'Ihe veil was antique" Brussels lace bordered with a rather deep ruffle of the lace, which crossed the veil just about where it touched the floor. The other end of the bridal veil, which was oblongelliptical in shape, was arranged, caplike, over the hair and caught with orange' blossoms.

The mother's dress was shimmering gold, but gold in soft lustre. The gown itself was of gold, tissue, neither transparent nor opaque, and was made more diaphanous by the quantity of gold lace used. The lower part of "the skirt had deep festoons of applied silk ribbon flowers, which were copied from the of flowers seen in the portraits in the Versailles palace. Some of these ribbon flowers were made of dull blues and pinks that had narrow gold bands on their edges. Here and there on the gown was placed a larger rose, and a band of blue ribbon fell in long loops at one side.

The chief attendant, the bride's sister. I had a. blue and green tulle dress, the j, two hued tulles placed one over the other, so that they gave the tones of colours seen in high waves when about to break. This gown was heavily embroidered in a silver design that looked like beautiful hoar frost and toned in with the gold of the mother's gown and the silvery sparkle of the lace in the bride's gown.'