The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-17
FASHIONABLE TROUSSEAU.
FROM $4,000 TO $2O,OGO THE
COST NOWADAYS

WIN Expensive Dresses, Stockings
at Fifty Dollars Pair and the
Finest Underwear.
ITO my mind the most alluring fea-
ture in connection with matrimony is
the trousseau,' sighed a bachelor after
inspecting one.
Answered the mother of the bride
elect:
And best of all, when money is
etsy, it is the feature easiest of all to
assure. In these days the mother of a
bride has a comparatively easy thing of
it.
There was time when every wo-
man relative of bride, rich or poor,
was reduced almost to nervous pros
tration by her efforts to bring the
rousseau to top notch perfection, and
even yet in certain parts of Europe
years are spent in accommodating some
bridal optfits, Over here, thank good
ness, it is different.
New Workers. are Anglomaniacs in
some things, but not in this. OF late,
say within the last two or three years,
many of the most elaborate trousseaus
of New York's wealthiest young wo-
men have been made ready in three
weeks, and without the owners putting
foot out of this city. At one time
Americas richest brides went to Eu-
| rope to collect their trousseau, even to
4, +
isfied to do otherwise, insisting that one
might as well be poor as to buy ones
wedding things at home,
That was when crossing the ocean
was more of novelty than it Is now.
But Miss Up To Date and her mother
now feel differently, and for good rea-
son, which is this; The fashionable
engagement has been getting shorter
and shorter, and is now altogether too
brief to permit of spending several
months in collecting rousseau, and
| to begin to get wedding clothes ready
before a girl is engaged is out Of the
question in this day of quickly chang
ing fashions and of women who would
rather break all the Commandments
than be found wearing last years
| garment.
Lingerie modes are just as tickle
| these days as the fashions in gowns, foi
the reason that the one Is made to com
plement the other. Consequently
about the only articles it is safe to col
lect against a possible engagement are
laces and jewels.
"A friend Of mine with very attrac
| tive daughter just turned sixteen has
placed a large order through a relative
now in Mexico, for edglngs and inser
lions of all sorts of widths of Mexican
lace as fine as a cobweb and which Il
sold down there for fraction of III
cost here, but she hasn't the least idei
of having any Of that lace made up I'll
her daughter is engaged-if she ever Is
II am often amused to hear old fash
toned people speak with admiration o
the chests filled with bed and table lin
en- and underwear which fell to the 10
of the well lowered brides Of the Brit
lish Isles and Germany half century 0
more ago, jest as If those young womer
were UNNECESSARILY better of thai
American latter day brides. In poin
OF fact, no European bride Of the oil
days spent anything like the sum nov
spent by rich Americans on trousseauS
German, English and Scotch girl
may have had four dozen white petit
coats each when married, as one old
fashioned lady know is fond Of point
ing ut, but it is certain that the fou
dozen didn't cost so much as the on
dozen petticoats now considered a.
ample number for the modern trous
seau, and the only advantage, If ad
vantage it can be called, In the forme
is that in nearly every European HON
of any social prominence there ar
great chests filled with following liner
which are handed down from one gen
Grafton to another without being use
by any one in particular, for of cours
} every bride starts out with her oW
new individual supply of body linen,
quarter of which only she viii proba
bly, use before it is outgrown or be
comes old-fashioned.
erich Europeans, though, are pat
terning more and more after the Amer
l lCdIe5 OH lIlt llOdH0tNu ANAS"bNhAI S"AA
there are no following chests of line
in fashionable New York houses, /
the matter of bed and table linen an
= white underwear the modern troussea
has been cut down in favor of addin
to the stock of gowns, wraps, tie
gowns, hats and other finery, costing
the aggregate, it is safe to say, te
| Inv tho
afIluent brides of a century ago.
"A main reason given for the eelerit
with which a modern rousseau is &c
together is the transplanting of tn
choicest of Partisan materials an
made up garments to New York. n
bride need go across the ocean an
more in search of the daintiest newes
most beautiful of wedding garments.
o 1.-THE rarest in the European farkt
comes across the ocean to her. Thel
are one or two establishments in Ne
York where everything in wearing al
, narel which bride can wish or ask II
is furnished in varieties which tho'
who know say can't be surpassed
Paris. and in one Of these there al
. saleswomen in the lingerie departmel
q who are specially detailed to attend
, | brides.
! in this department the most elab'
! rate orders are put through in ten da!
or less time If required, which meal
y that every piece if necessary is altert
7 to fit perfectly and is decorated with
n handsomely embroidered monogram.
zone dozen Of each article is the pr