The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
The Wedding
Gown
Some Suggestions for the Fall Bride
Material Trimming and
the Pattern
the Pattern

ROM the time when young Lochinvar stole away
his bride. to the present the wedding gown has
been the most important dress a ever
wears it is lavished endless thought and
.are. with the supersttons every coun-
hy
White satin is the wedding gown of today just as
It the wedding of great great-grand-
mothers But there are many who like and insist upon
chiffon silk just transparent as chiffon; and
In those arriving from Paris appears little
twill. These up chiffon and taffeta and
sometimes both.
there are many to whom a wedding dress is
not a wedding dress unless it be of satin
But satin metamorphosed from heavy satin OF
over year ago into the lightest softest fluent
of satin zephyrs There degrees of lightness
starting with radium, which is sheer chiffon
the more extreme qualities going netor,
which has the same rich depth and beauty sheen
but is degree heavier. Then messaline, a silk
that can't be told from satin; then society
richest, softest most beautiful them all. Faille
Regent is lustrous silk that taken. going
70 take again. the place of satin II rich gstens
satin. but has in reality tiny cord. instead of
soft uninterrupted sheen of satin
Lace is the most exquisite trimming today just
in the days of great grandmothers.
laces used differ perhaps. from those
turtles but in a very small degree This year will
be real baby Irish crochet real Bruges lace duchess
Mechin. all of which have attained a wonderful
prominence in the world of fashion this year
The Irincesse gown in the center rich op-
of the great advantage broad.
deep yoke and the berufled elbow.
Wells worn by the bride differ. Lace veis-particu-
larly wells have been by mother
are course the tulle and
chiffon quite much If not more. for it is
thing in America to find old lace wells with the
romance the mother in their folds.
The superstition holds today, it always has held,
bride try her wedding gown entire
until the right OF the wedding This sometimes very
inconvenicnt. for n wants to be
accurately
dressnsaker usually succeeds in getting
somehow the dressmaker knows the awful doom
which awaits bride who insists trying her we'd
ding gown entirei
THE bridesmaids, dresses can be made of almost
anything: exquisite radium which
tones grays 10 pinks and from deep puppies to
light chiffon cloth. crepe de chine. Radium
satny lustrous crepe de chine that came into
discoveries made by Liberty.
of London. found how silks in London as
they in the East, with the lighness of chif
fon, the depth richness of the heaviest satin.
Both crepe chine and radium yield themselves in
most gracious manner to the present Styles which
tend toward fuller skirts and short sleeves
The bridesmaids white color chosen
by the bride. They be dressed alike or in contrast
They may all the style of hat or all may
wear styes-so lenent is fashion But lace is
almost as essential bridesmaids gowns the
8 essential brides toilet.
The patterns TO the make charming for
bridesmaids adapts itself beautifully to the
rues and yoke provides the Indispensable lace
When girls take part in the ceremony
they always dressed in printed muslin lawn
or white understanding extremely simple and ex
their like the dresses of the
bride and bridesmaids, should be trimmed with lace
superstitions entering into the dressing Of Tho
bride following all the through the cere
rnonv are so numerous and SO contradictory that
full volume would contain them all For instance
the say that when 1t rains every drop OF rail-
brings Joy; English. who always looking
out for a rainy day ominous weather, insist tina
each drop brings There Is superstition
that it is bad and yet another super
CLIFTON in which of luck comes to the brid
who wears a tiny bit Of lace-so small thing as
handkerchief brings the greatest of blessings If she vii
but carry il through ceremony. The forgetting o
the ring at he IS said bode evil to the Eng
fish forgetting of the ring 10 the German Is IN
hest of orens portends ceaseless procession o
.ovs And so superstitions part In weddings
exeept In so far as they amusing and serve {
nrng laughter upon the bride and groom.