HISTORICAL BRIDAL VEIL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 298, 18 December 1933, Page 8

HISTORICAL BRIDAL VEIL

WORN BY LADY JANE SEYMOUR. SEEN AGAIN AT ST. MARGARET’S. Eight women dressmakers, directed by their chief—a man—arrived at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, on October 17, to arrange the bridal train of Miss Margaret Livingstone-Learmonth, who was married there to Mr. Peter Wiggin, of the 11th Hussars. Tho dressmaking corps took up a position at tho bottom of tho centre aisle, and as Captain Noel LivingstoneLearmonth escorted his daughter from the porch, took charge of her train, which was draped in a roll over one arm. A procession of 14 tall, slender bridesmaids in white dresses and crimson velvet sashes moved forward into their places in front of the bride. She, with a veil of old Brussels lace, which was made for Lady Jane Seymour—one of the wives of Henry Vlll—draping her angel-skin gown, stood still behind them. As the dressmakers, four on each side, slowly unrolled the magnificent train, six yards long, from the cellophane paper in which it was wrapped, the music from the organ and the singing of the choir helping to deaden the “crackle” of the, protective wrappings. The dressmakers’ work took so long that, before the bride had reached tho chancel steps, the processional hymn had finished, and she and her attendants— who included four small train-

bearers—completed the last few yards in dead silence. Miss Livingstone-Learmonth belongs to a group of girls who made •their debut with Mrs. Charles Sweeny, better known as Miss Margaret Whigham. One of her contemporaries, the young Countess of Warwick, provided the “Something borrowed, and something blue” with which every bride goes to tho altar, in the shape of the satin garters she herself recently’ wore ar her wedding to the Earl of Warwick.