WEDDING GOWNS

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18652, 2 June 1932, Page 5

WEDDING GOWNS

OF THE SEASON. The inclusion of a wedding scene, with the bride and ‘her attendants in full regalia, has become almost a ritual at the dress shows in England (says an English exchange). Enterprising modern dress creators devise some of their most delightful flights of fancy for these bridal tableaux. The displays tend to grow more numerous each season, and the variety of wedding fashions consequently becomes very diverse. Tulle, ivory cream and faintly flushed with palest pink, is the wedding veil fabric of the year, and, with the orange blossom that knows no close season in wedding fashion, silver ribbons, pearl flowerets and lattice work of seed pearls are being mingled to make a bridal novelty. The Juliet cap, the tiara, the coronet, and the classic wreath all have their sponsors. There is a wedding crown for every type, each being distinguished by a new femininity in the softness of the draperies and the tendency to form a tiny frill about the face, much after the style of the old English mob cap, only flatter. The modern appreciation of line survives, however, in the moulding of the filmy tulle to the head and the appreciation of delicate craftsmanship is shown in the intricacy of designs into which a present-day adaptation of old-fashioned seed pearl work has been put.