Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-04
AUTUMN BRIDES.

running up at the back. The short apron
piece which covered the front was tucked to
within some seven inches of the bottom the
fall matching the flounces below. A high
unlined stock finished the throat of this
gown.
Some exquisite white frocks are shown by
the stores with the Information that they
are bought for wedding purposes. In these
there is more scope for fancy than is per-
mitted in things made to order private MAX
erS of any prestige, no matter what they
say being given to rather conventional no.
ticns on wedding clothes. Silver embroider
les, in the most delicate traceries, deck some
of these radiant store frocks, such work
showing on snowy chiffons and fragile silk
gauzes. With gowns in plain nets deep
yellow lace is often used, with bias borders
OF satin sometimes edging Insertions These.
in one instance, hung loosely all over
Brussels net frock, the strips forming a
pointed overdress on the jupe and hanging
in a bertha of pendant tabs on the fluffy
bodice. The lace was more brown than
yellow, the blonde varieties in this warm
tint showing off delightfully."- with dead
white.
Plain Tucked Net.
Very good suggestions for economy can
be got from the shop gowns, one of which
was the sweetest thing in plain tucked net.
Not a speck of lace showed on this any
where, which omission did not in the least
dctract from its elegance.
With such gowns and all others of lacy
nature tulle wells alone should be worn.
The required length for these is four yards
square two ends being always rounded,
and the ready-made wells coming with
hemmed borders outlined with a single silk
thread. The square is divided equally in
the middle, that the ends may fall
evenly; it is then punched and worn back
of a short coronet of orange blossoms.
shaped like the diamond coronets of the
dag. The net wells edged with point ap-
pllDup in the thong
the shape of these, a sort of long oval,
makes the fall somewhat different. Three
yards and a half is the length of the net
wells, which sell from $50 up. The hemmeG
tu!le ones are much cheaper, the best stores
charging only 81 for them, and less for
unhemmed veil lengths.
Only the raw edged tulle wells are ever
worn over the face. But since this modest
fashion is now somewhate obsolete, the
wedding veil of the immediate future will
probably be worn only at the back of the
head.
The bouquet the bride carries accepted
tastes agree. should be of natural flowers.
bride roses or lilies of the valley. with a
border of maiden hair. Three or more
loose, long-stemmed roses are also some
times carried but the set bouquet is al
ways more effective.
The Brides Flowers.
Speaking of bouquets reminds me of the
delicious brides one sees in Paris-brdes
OF the peOple-Wno, after the solemn cere-
mony, caper about outdoors in their we'd
ding finery. These you see in the Bots,
and at all the out-of-town places, where
merry go-rounds grind and waffles are
cooked, playing like children, while the
happy bridegroom carries the huge bouquet
of artificial orange blossoms, set in rim
of the coarsest lace. Sometimes the play
full bride reaches for the never-fading sym
boil; and soon you see Wight has yielded
up little lace-trimmed handkerchief.
The higher world secretes the wedding
handkerchief in any convenient nook, and
to Judge from the illustrations given at
some of the fine church weddings the front
of the bodice is one very handy place.
Again one sees the dainty token appear
from the belt, the sleeve, the back Of
the prayer book; some of which indeed are
provided with a little pocket for the pur-
pose. The altar mouchoir is always lace
trimmed.
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