NUPTIAL FINERY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

NUPTIAL FINERY

IDEAS ABOUT WEDDINGS. Writing in the London “Daily Telegraph,” Mrs C. W. Forrester discourses on wedding finery, and those who regard these ceremonies as times for elegant dress displays will be interested in her ideas and information about some new' schemes. She writes — “I have seen a golden mediaeval bride followed by bronze-frocked bridesmaids, and bronze tints in metal brocades made a lovely setting for her. “I am sure that if only one-quarter the trouble was taken over the dress details and deportment of the bridesmaids at an important wedding that is spent on the chorus of a musical comedy that the modem wedding would leave its mark on the history book of fashion! For quite ordinary weddings to-day are occasions when interesting modes are revealed, and are not at all the stereotyped affairs of some year ago. “Colour schemes and the new beauty of modern fabrics have greatly added to the charm of recent weddings. Lame, which recalls the magnificence of the Renaissance, has a new softness and pliability, and the dress artist moulds it with the sculptor’s cunning. Then the traditional white satin, which can be of a milky whiteness or a pearl tint, falls in such beautiful folds in points or train. Velvet, panne, and faille add to the wider choice in cream, white, pink, and those new greens to the modern girl, who loves to fiy in the face of tradition and superstition. “I have heard of plans for a lovely all-blue country wedding. The bride is stately, and has wisely chosen a Madonna blue satin, somewhat paler than the Italian shade, for it seems to have a chalky-white, filmy finish. She will carry a sheaf of silver lilies,, painted with blue. A very long veil, of blue tulle, will be held by a diadem of diamonds and turquoise. Otherwise no jewellery will be worn, but a half-Medici collar of exquisite old Italian lace finishes the neck, and the long fitted sl.eeve is terminated with a shaped pi£rc of the same. The Princess frock has a long train from the waist—-semi-mediaeval in effect. All austerity i» softened by the cloud of tulle, which is very becoming. At this wedding eight tiny children, who are being well drilled, will wear long Kate Greenaway frocks of the same satin and carry tight posies of forget-me-nots, and will have a wreath of these flowers holding a shorter veil of the bridal tulle. “Very effective was a country hunt wedding, when the fair, delicate-look-ing bride chose a fluffy type of frock in all-white chiffon. The chiffon veil, held by a pearl diadem, had embroidered ends and formed quite a long train. She carried white roses. “Then ten bridesmaids were all about 20 years old, and wore eighteen-cen-tury riding dress in faille of a huntingpink shade. The short, cut-away coats were faced wth black velvet, and black velvet tricornes were worh, whilst silver whips with handles or red carnations were carried. “Hats, of course, were worn at this wedding, but wreaths and fantastic headdresses have certainly taken the place of hats for bridesmaids, possibly because the modern hat is such a trying affair, and seldom picturesque. However, the ‘Watteau’ shape may be revived with the silks of that period, which are already on the fashion list.