MUSIC AND GOWNS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)

MUSIC AND GOWNS.

IDEAS ABOUT WEDDINGS. Soft organ music with the whisper of violins, the crisp rustle of' silken gownS and the subdued murmur of voices—and then dead quiet. Then out of the tenM silence the first, notes of the Lohengrin wedding march, , ‘’’Here Comes tho Bride,” and whether she be garbed in the most modern or the most old-tiipe bridal gown this is, after all, her moment and hers alone. Of course there are bridesmaids and jjerhaps a page or flower girl. These may head the procession and be decked in all the colours of tho rainbow, but the eyes of the wedding guests are for the bride. And this is true whether tho wedding numbers Royalty among, its guests or is quietly solemnised in the smallest of small country churches, states an overseas writer. Every bride, of course, has her dream of the perfect wedding gown. One wants to bo married in c the dress her mother wore. Perhaps another uses the material of her mother’s wedding gown, cream coloured with the years, but has the gown made in modern style. Still another wants something very, very new and very, very different, although she may wear a lace veil which has graced the brides of her family for generations. The choice of fabrics for the wedding gown is almost unlimited. Aloire, taffeta, crepe satin and transparent velvet fashion many of the loveliest of dresses, while some summer brides have chosen net or the finest of mousseline de soie for their day of days. One is not even limited as to colour to-day, for Hie wedding dress may be of the purest white, or a pale cream, or almost as deep as the rich shade of a well-made rup of cafe au lait. Some brides are even wearing shell pink. For- fashionable weddings the gown Is usually created on the bride, as it were, designed with her special tastes and personality in mind. Though the inspiration for many of the jnost striking gowns may have come from the same period in history, the dresses themselves are as different as their wearers. As one designer says, “Some of the girls must have figures created for them, they themselves .being as flat as flat can be, and, of course, even in these days of strepuous exercise and equally strenuous dieting, there are others for whom wo must use special care to dispense with too many curves.

A number of Wanganui ladies, are beginning to wonder if they have been "had.” Some time ago a quictly-spoke?i little woman of homely appearance- called at different houses in the-city 1 and said sho represented a stocking firm (says tho New Zealand Herald). She exhibited samples of women’s hoisery, and collected deposits, promising to ref turn with tho stockings selected in less than a fortnight, when the balance of the money could be paid. The canvasser left the address of her headquarters in the city, but when, after three, weeks had elapsed and the woman and the stockings had not put in an appearance, she could not be found. The “office” has been besieged with women, who find that, if the bird had riot flown altogether, the cage has been deserted for tho time being, and there is nothing to indicate that sho will return. • :■