LONDON FASHION JOTTINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 52

LONDON FASHION JOTTINGS.

LONDON, July 30. Dear Emmeline, — In that new play, "The Ambassador," Miss Vanburgh, the possessor of beautiful white arms, wears round one an armlet of black velvet drawn through a paste buckle, and the upshot of this is that velvet armlets — in many instances to be followed later by a corresponding necklet — will 'soon be an established mode. The latest variety in paste buckles has cornered instead of roundad stones. Cream serge is coming again with a, rash to the front, doubtless largely because it is so well suited for wearing at fashionable seaside resorts, with trimmings of pale green or light blue, pink, or heliotrope, gold or silver, or often self-coloured. Such dresses always deservedly call forth much admiration. Once more the London season is jusfc at an end. Goodwood races took place at the beginning of the week, and this function ia the last society event of each season. Many people left town before it took place, but many also | waited for it, though of the latter number, I fancy most have now quitted London for seaside and country. So for some months to come London will "again be empty, cave and except for the few millions of unconsidered persons more or less compelled to work for a living," as was remarked a. day or two since by one of the paperß. FASHIONABLE WEDDING. With the exodus from London, society weddings, too, are on the wane. One of the latest and most fashionable functions of this kind, however took place on Saturday afternoon la3fc, when, at Sfc Paul's Church, KnightKbridge, the Earl of Stradbroke — head of tho Rous family — was married to Miss Hele&i Keith Fraser, daughter of the late General Keith Fraser. The brido wta given avray by her brother, Captain Hugh Fraeer. At the church, royalty was present, as well as any number of society leaders and famous beauties. The bride, who is very pretty, tall and dark, looked well in a wedding gown of white satin, quite veiled with magnificent old BraFsel3 lace. Her court train was covered with chiffon, and edged with Brussels lace, while a veil of the same was worn over > a coronet of orange blossoms. ' Save for a diamond pin belonging to her late father, the bride wore no ornaments. There were six bridesmaids, who were all dressed exactly alike in Sir Joshua Reynolds cop-turnes— two of them were very little dots, and acted as train-bearers. They were, Lady Constance Groavenor, Lady Evelyn Orichton, Lady Kathleen Cole, the Hon. Ethel Fraeer, Miss Honor Leojfh, and Miss Kitty Lee. The six dresses were carried out in. white satin, covered with chiffon, with ruchings, fichua, and transparent sleeves of the latter. Each, had a narrow blue ribbon round her waist, with ends reaching the hem of the skirt at the back, and each wore, tucked in her fichu, a large pink cabbage rose with its foliage entwined in the wsust belt. Instead of aa