The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-17

| lace is used; few cost lass llan nifty |
dollars
when bride-to-be is given into my
hands, L first get her to make her Sc
| lections for the dozen sets, showing her
| without reserve every style which
! think will come within the limit she
has set for herself, which is easy
enough for an experienced saIesWoman
to determine after a little conversation,
| No, the mother has very little to say
on an occasion of this sort. She gives
advice, of course, and makes sugges-
tions maybe; but the bride does her
own choosing.
after the selecting is over, the gar
ments are taken to private room and
tried on, perfection of fit as well as of
| workmanship and material being insist
ed on nowadays. Then book of pat
terms for monograms is put before the
bride, who selects q design to be en-
broidered on every piece of her trous-
seau, using always hr maiden mono
gram, that is, if she knows what is cor
rect.
'At this time we find out what the
young Woman's favorite scent Is, and
when her lingerie goes home every set
is in a separate box of silk or satin pa
per in which is handsome silk sachet.
From this department. a bride gene
rally goes to the silk petticoat section
and picks out from half dozen to nine
of different colors, white in the lead.
Like the lingerie, silk petticoats have
cached a plane of extravaganza not
dreamed Of when l first came to this es-
adjustment, and there are French mod
els designed especially for brides in
white pale pink and pale blue
''Negllges and tea gowns come next,
for it is not often nowadays that these
must be made to order. Either in the
I French or the Oriental models the very
choicest examples find their way to
New York, and it 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
on tea gowns and negliges, but so soon
as the rousseau is in sight she plunges
and spends enough on these tribes to
more than balance any number of doz-
ems of white underwear she doesn't buy
and which European brides do buy.
/, She seldom gets fewer than four
negliges, only a little less elaborate
than tea gowns, and then half dozen
three-quarter length negliges-mati-
nees, some people call them-composed
of more lace than silk. To these are
q added at least three tea gowns, which
come higher than silks and brocades,
A tea gown sent home in trousseau
: last week was made entirely of white
lace and chiffon over a pink silk foun-
dalton. Yes, it was made in Paris
1T was this same bride who spent
q three different mornings here selecting
hosiery. 1t seems to me if there is one
thing more than another that the New
9 York trousseau is extravagant in that
thing is stockings.
! plain cotton or Isle varieties are
n hardly looked at any more. Even plain
s silk ones are scarcely tolerated. They
s must be open work of intricate pattern
a or embroidered from the instep almost
Ii to the top. To spend fifty dollars for
$. one paid of stockings is nothing.
/ Some designs are pailletted, Others
If have insertions of finest lace let in
i The old time bride never, l am sure
It saw such stockings, The bride ! speak
: of selected pile which was the talk OF
" the store for days after,
n "She was careful to match every one
n of her gowns with half a dozen pairs
1t and the quantity of blacks and Of tans
d alone--tans are very fashionable just
" now-was something like four dozer
< pairs. l believe Her hosiery bill alone
is will he several hundred dollars, ant
+ what she will spend on shoes probably
l. will overtop this sum,
t. mo, she did not leave her shoe order
If here. Her own bootmaker is fitting
le her to slippers, pumps, ties and boots
n Twelve pairs of slippers and pumps
g. were sent to a bride-to-be from hert
l. the other day, and probably her ordel
,r for tan and for black ties and for shoes
he with fancy uppers will at the least b'
'e twelve pairs Another bride told mt
n, she had ordered forty new pairs o
l. boots, shoes and slippers and four doz
d en- pairs of stockings.
SO Il was very much surprised in pass
n ing through the perfumery section o
a the store the other day to see pile o
l. bottles and boxes set off by themselves
e. at one side of the counter.
Have you been stocking a store?'
T. asked jokingly.
- "'These are to go to MMiss Blank,
Nj the saleswoman answered-Miss Blanl
N being one Of the Easter brides She il
IN going to travel and her mother wanted
,d to make sure she would be provided
~ whereber she was with all her favorit
70 extracts, the bill for which was sevent,
40 dollars. I only mention this to shoy
In how luxurious the modern bride is II
an some expenditures, even if she does Gu
st down on the quantity Of underwear an,
in bed and table linen,
tv mo, it is not true that some wealth!
Of brides buy no bed or table linen at all
10 I have noticed, though, that few bride
ID bother with the every day grades
u which every housekeeper is sure to nee
" sooner or later.
It "They are more apt to get few yer,
handsome lunch and dinner cloths witt
ct napkins to match and a few sets o
re handsome bed linen and towels than
w larger quantity ordinary quality.
~ suppose they fill that in afterard"
or This stateent was corroborated by tn
Sc mother of an April bride.
in "As a matter Of fact" said she, 9Th
re American mother no matter how grea
MT her wealth, concerns herself less wit