WOOLLEN TROUSSEAU

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23042, 20 May 1938, Page 4

WOOLLEN TROUSSEAU

DAINTY AND ALLURING FASHIONS AT GLASGOW VARIED USES OF MATERIAL [from our own correspondent] LONDON, April 30 "A wool wedding" is to be one of tho many attractions of the Wool Pavilion at the Glasgow Exhibition. Women will be shown, and convinced, tho International Wool Secretariat hopes, that wool is suitable for tho daintiest garments.

The bride and seven replicas of herself variously dressed, will be displayed on a blue-lined stage with blue and white tufted curtains caught back by white plaster hands. To be married, tho bride wears ice blue wool lace with a heart-shaped bodice and a full skirt stiffened over whalebone. On her head, under her blue bridal veil are felt flowers —pale yellow, magenta, blue and white, mounted on a blue tulle headband with fly-away streamers. Her head-dress and tho flowers round her cako arc baby versions of her bouquet. All the flowers are wool. The Travelling Frock

The trip to the Continent for the honeymoon is made in a white bolero and a full-skirted dress in the new manner, a black straw hat tied on with a black veil under her chin and fly-away doves on top.

Tho bride will dine in a black and mandarin red wool dress —the mandarin red sweater top richly embroidered with sequins and blue cabuchons. With it sho wears a hat in mandarin red sewn with gold thread. Designers enjoy working in wool. "A wool dinner dress .... simple, clinging to the figure . . . there is nothing better," they say. Many liko wool duvetcen —" it looks like peach skin "—for evening coats.

For grand evenings, milady wears a wonderful draped evening dress caught at tho hem with enormous orchid pink sequin flowers —with smaller similar flowers embroidered flat on the turnup of tho threequarter-length sleeves. The bridal negligee is in white nun's veiling with dolman sleeves, tailored revers and a stitched belt. Tones of cyclamen and mauvo are massed on tiie pockets, and where the negligee falls coyly open a glimpse of wool lace knicker edged with cyclamen baby ribbon may be seen.

Tweed Jacket

The bride will go for walks in a travel suit—the skirt of hydrangea check tweed, the mauve swathed blouse of lightest wool and the jacket of hydrangea check tweed with lapels and cuffs to match tho blouse. She waves a mauve felt hat in her hand. Her beach ensemble of rough white nun's veiling is a three-piece of brassiere, shorts and a full-length pleated coat, with a sari, banded with yellow applique waves. The general effect is Assyrian and very striking. The bride's blue wool spectator sports dress is clean-cut bodice and pleated skirt with scarf and cummerbund of Indian red with white spots.