Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-04
GORGEOUS WEDDING. 9ell.5 :
Marriage OF Boss. Tweed's Daughter
The Way the Peoples Money Goes.

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At the marriage Of Boss Tweed,s daugh-
Orleans, over 500, goo i'm wedding presents
were presented. The Times gives the fol-
lowing particulars in relation TO the brides
wardrobe: vurepeE
The wedding dress was composed of
white gros grain, with train three and a
half yards in length, and was trimmed
with real point lace, costing near s., 900.
The front of the skirt was. cut with deep
scollop, and the oyer-skirt, consisted of
lace, Ornamented with orange flowers.
The price of the material and labor re-
quired In making and trimming this dress
was 81, 600, making, with the lace, a total
cost of $1,000.
The other dresses forming the trousseau
are fourteen in number, and are all elegant
and designed in the most artistic manner.
First, there lis aSblack walking suit in
heavy rich gros, grain, in which hirty-fve,
yards of silk were used. 1T is trimmed
with two pieces of Antilly guipure and two
pieces of rich heavy Cluny. Three hum
trimmings The front is cut with, side
pleating the whole width of the skirt
| front, and the train iswhite, mingled with
black. This dress cost 500. N gEfT e. Vi
Nextis O brown walking suit of thirty
! two yards of brown silk tFhe front of the
underskirt consists of three regular reverse
pIeats interpolated with three deep fiat
falls. On each side the box pleats are
narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.
The back part isvery deep, lfiounced, scol-
loped and trimmed with narrow piping
looped in each corner with scollops.y The
front is perfectly plain. The poloflaise has
a very deep postillion trimmed with fringe
looped on the left shoulder. The back part
of the polonaise is looped on both sides
with fringe capitonet. The front of the
polonaise is fiat, making, on each side, two
fringe of brown The sleeves are entirely
pagodo, trimmed with flowers, and deep at
the top and pointed at the, bottom. The
inside sleeves are trimmed with thread
lace, mixed. with tulle, as is, also. the front,
giving the dress very rich appearance.
The cost of the inside sleeves and waist
was $50, and the cost of the entire dress,
$780, issf1@ MIaeb % 4HW
Then there are walking suit of forty
two yards of blue striped silk, costing $780,
lilac walking suit of striped silk, costing
$500; black and white silk walking suit,
containing thirty-five yards, and costing
500 "a brown walking suit, containing
fifty yards, costing $500; purple silk re-
ception dress. containing, thirty yards,
costing 5000; and silver gray reception
dress, containing thirty-twOS yards, and
costing 81 ,OOO. Inc gtotaI cOsC OF tneSe
dresses was 50, 200.
The wedding presents, given by alarge
number of friends, were displayed In one
Of the upperrooms, andmusthave amount
| ed to the value of over 500. 900, and pre-
sented an appearance of brilliancy which
can never have been equalled in Jmuni6-
cence. They comprised all sorts of jewelry.
with diamonds enough to stock half a
dozen stores silver sets in profusion, and
almost everything that the ingenuity of
| the human mind could suggest in the line
of presents. ,1LdT
It is very easy to support good deal of
| style, with the wealth of all the taxpayers
of New York to draw upon, as "BOss"
Tweed has, has sFfugG F9nue