Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
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Miss Molly Cozzins Lefferts, Miss Mary
Park of Pittsburg. Miss Dorothy Pierre
pont Edwards Miss Louise Schroeder sis
| ter of the bridegroom, and Miss Eleanor
| Swayne They wore pale-blue chiffon tat
feta robes combined with yellow lace, and
their hats were trimmed with blue plumes
and ribbons matching the color OF their
frocks. These hats had moderately high
crowns and wide brirns, rolled at the left
and set back trifle from the forehead.
enough TO show their coiffures. Folds OF
blue went around the crown and tiny bows
of blue showed at the left back, while a
single wide and long pale-blue ostrich
plume started from the crown, near the
front, and crossed over to the brlm, where
1t curled down to the left ear. Each gown
had yoke of yellow Lie-re lace, withttock
to match rather a removable gumpe,
and the tops of the silk bodices were finished
with turned-down points of the blue SILK
caught with cabochon-like roses or whorls
of blue silk ribbon. The bodices biOused q
| little and showed panel effects. the panels
being of the Lierre lace. and the overlap
ping silk edges being finished with narrow
boullonnees or pufs of the silk-these not
being over an inch and an eighth In width.
The skirts also showed these panel effects,
as though they were extensions of the waist
panels, down each side of the front and
also each side of the back. the skirt being
formed in reality of four immense battle
ments bordered all around with the bout
linneeS and, apparently, hanging loose over
the yellow lace panels.
Mrs. Berkeley Mostyn. mother of the
bride. in u princess effect gown, In
white applique lace over chiffon and SILK,
foundation fiOunce of chiffon, showing mar
row tuckS, finishing the foundation SIP
The blouse had elbow sleeves and a high
stock and the rather large but deHcately
outlined applique had glmmering crystal
beads of the long variety outlining pof-
ton of their designs. Her rather small nat
was trimmed with white ostrich tips The
robe was trailing one and tight fitting.
Mrs Ledyard Stevens. an aunt of the
bride-one might say double aunt. as the
brides mother and aunt married brothers
was also all in white. but her gown was a
coat Of Point de Nenise over dotted net,
the net forming the long skirt and having
fiat puffs and narrow ruffies at the bottom,
the coat coming to within eight inches of
its lower edge. The coat was broken at the
waist by white silk girdle. above which
the coat body fulled the least bit The
sleeves ended slightly below the elbows
over net undersleeves. and her plumed
white hat was more irregular in shape and
also had its plumes more lrreSulariy ar
ranged than that of the brides mother.
Mrs. Gilliat Schroeder mother of the
bridegroom, and who was Miss Louise
Ricketts, Lawrence of the old Long Island
families of Ricketts, and Lawrence, was IN
a handsome robe of different shades or
mauve gauza and chiffon over mauve silk.
The silk formed the foundation slip and
plain mauve chiffon formed plated panel
effect down the front from the lace yoke to
the skirts hem, mauve silk girdle break
ing the long lines. The sides and back of
the gown We're of paler mauve chiffon or
gauze thlckly dotted with small dots of
deeper mauve. Her toque was also nsauve
, of different shades. and several handsome
| old heirloom brooches in diamonds adorned
| the bodice
| Mrs Henry Meyer Johnson at this we'd
| ding was also in mauve. the material be-
| ing heavily knotted pongee, a short walk
| Ing skirt and Eton coat. The skirt was laid
| in narrow, graduated box plaits, joined
| from the waist line a third of the way to the
| bottom by cross-stitChes of darker mauve
silk floss: where the cross-stftches-closely
| resembling feather stitching-stopped the
plafts were released. At their tops the plalts