The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29

" thlb OODdl LiilCnl u III kCilOtalty
goes to the silk pettiooat section n picks
out from half adozen to nine Of different
colors, white in the lead. Like the lingerie,
silk ~petticoats have reached a plane OF ex-
~travagance not dreamed Of when / first
came to this establishment, and there are
French models designed especially for
brides in white, pale pink and pale blue!
'Negliges and tea gowns come next,
for it Is not often nowadays that these must
be made to order, Either in the French
examples find their way to New York, and 1t
is in these that the New York bride goes
far ahead. OF. the old time bride, in quantity
and quality. Before she is married the
York girl, no matter how rich she may
be, goes light 90 tea gowns and negliges,
but so sooh ~ the trousseau is in sight she
plunges and spends enough or these trihes
to more than balance any number OF dozens
Of white underwear she doesn't buy and
which European brides do buy.
ges, only a little less elaborate than tea
gowns, and then half a dozen thnee-quarter
length negliges-matinees, some people
call them-composed Of more lace than
silk. To these are added at least three tea
gowns, which come higher than. silks and
trousseau last week was made entirely of
white lace and chiffon over a pink silk foun-
dation. Yes, it was made in Paris,
ut was this same bride who spent three
different mornings here selecting hosiery;
than another that the New York trousseau
is ~eItravagant in that thing is stockings,
plain cotton or Isle varieties are hardly
looked at any more. Even plain silk ones
are scarcely tolerated. They must be open
from the instep almost to the top. To
spend $50 for one pair. Of stockings is moth
ing
insertions Of finest lace let in. The old time
bride never, l am sure, saw such stockings.
The bride I speak Of selected a pile which
was the ak Of the store for days after.
She was careful to match every one OF
her gowns with half a dozen pairs, and the
quantity OF blacks and OF tans alone-tans
are very fashionable just now-was some
thing k four dozen pairs, l believe. Her
hosiery bill alone will be several hundred
dollars, and what she will spend on shoes
probably. will overtop his sum.
mo, she did not leave her shoe order
here. Her bootmaker is fitting her to
slippers, pumps, ties and boots. Twelve
pairs Of slippers and pumps were sent to a
bride-to-be from here the other day, and
probably her order for tan and for black
ties and for shoes with fancy uppers will
at the least be twelve pairs. Another bride
told me she had ordered forty new pairs of
boots, shoes and slippers and four dozen
pairs Of stockings.
Il was very much surprised in passing
through the perfumery section Of the store
the other day to see a pile of bottles and
boxes set of by themselves at one side OF
Have you been stocking a store2' l
asked jokingly. y.
These are to go to Miss Blank the
saleswoman answered-Miss Blank being
one Of the Easter brides. She is going to
travel, and her mother wanted to make sure
she would be provided wherever she was
with all her ~favorite extracts. the bill for
which was $40. only mention this to show
how luxurious the modern bride il in some
expenditures, even il she does cut down on
the quantity of underwear and in bed and
table linen.
"No, it il not true that some wealthy brides
buy no bed or table linen at all. l have
never met one who did not lay in a small
supply anyway. l have noticed, though,
that few brides bother with the every day
grades, which every housekeeper is sure
to need sooner or later.
They are more apt to get a few very
handsome lunch and dinner cloths with
napkins to match and a few sets OF hand
some bed linen and towels than a larger
quantity of ordinary quality. lsuppose they
fill that in afterward."
This statement was c~orroborated by the
mother Of an April bride.
AS a matter Of fact, said she, 4the Amer
lean mother no matter how great her
wealth, concerns herself less with this
ItdIuit VI ITO " . ptlail
with any other. Indeed, the matter of
household linen really requires little atten-
ton.
MANY brides travel for O year OF more;
a great many choose to live in apartment
hotels, or at home with their parents or
their husbands parents; In none Of these
cases ia a large supply of bed andtable linen
needed. To pile up fine linen in chests
would be absurd.
Il have given my daughter two dozen
handsome linen sheets and pillow cases,
four dozen towels, and one dozen fine table
cloths with napkins to match would not
have done 80 much at this lime save to
enable her to answer with truth questions
of the curious as to whether her moUsor had
given her her bed and table linen.
For two years to come. at least, my
daughter has no intention of keeping house;
it is doubtful il she will 60 to housekeeping
for half a dozen years to come n she
thinks, as I do, hat when that time arrives
it will be soon enough to get in her table
linen-the bed linen doesn't make 80 much
difference.
1.-The furnishings Of lunch and dinner
year and every ambitious young house,
keeper naturally prefers to be in the fashion.
No, the English and Germans still hold the
palm for lowering their daughters with
linen, the Germans beginning to accumulate
it soon after a daughter is born.
AS DSUWteu IIc ulppcd III TX fluOT
can bride Of wealth and high social position,
the latter, unuuestionably, has the more
gowns, wraps and hats In her trousseau.
and, with few exceptions, / should say her
trousseau costs nearly double that OF the
other. GIN leaving Out jewels, mind you.
"0hly as far back as when | was Q girl
the American girls trousseau included very
few really. imposing. or very costly gowns.
The simplicity which characterized her
gowns before marriage was continued
practically for a year or two after marriage,
particularly IL she we're in her teens or not
far past them. She went In for 'muslins,
organizes and that sort OF thing. There
wore not more than half q dozen really
handsome gowns in my whole collection.
my daughter, on the contrary, starts OF
with an outfit as handsome as the one l
now have, handsomer II anything. and she
has no more than any Of her friends who
are getting married this spring have,
THE wedding gown Oh, wedding gowns
are too much alike to need even the least
description, and as a rule they are about
the least expensive item In the trousseau
gowns.
The modern American bride, to enu.
merate her gowns. needs at least three
travelling costumes of varying degrees Of
cost, whereas the bride Of former genera
ions got along very well with one. There
must be a hat to match each OF these Co.'S
tunes, Of course.
Then she must have three carriage or