These dresses have long skirts and are worn when driving, not when on foot, and are covered by long wraps when going to the play. Hats are removed at 'the play,' as the term is now. A pretty bodice may be worn with a skirt of silk or cloth if one does not wish elaborate attire. At a day wedding the mother of the bride usually wears a gown of velvet, fine cloth, silk or crepe de Chine of mauve or gray, and a toque or small hat, if it is a church wedding, and retains her hat after returning to the house. Bridesmaids' dresses are suggested in another chapter.
Bridesmaids wear black patent-leather slippers and black silk stockings.
Flower girls or children with short dresses wear black stockings and patent-leather pumps or ties with plain, rather low heels. Gloves are removed when taking one's seat at a luncheon or dinner and resumed when returning to the drawing-room. Any innovation in turning gloves back and tucking them about the wrist is to be avoided. At a tea-table or when playing cards gloves are inappropriate. At a standing-up supper one may keep on gloves.