Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05
GOWN IS GORGEOUS
Miss Gould Will Wear Train
Over Five YARDS Long.
TR0USSEAU COST $4,000
Fifty Costumes Prepared by 5th
Avenue Dressmakers.
ENGLISH CUSTOM AT WEDDING
Maids and Pages to Be Feature.
Plans Made for Honeymoon
in Egypt.
TRoUssEAU COST $4,000
ENGLISH CUSTOM AT WEDDING
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February 4.-Although the
wedding of Miss Vivien Gould and Lord
Decies next Tuesday afternoon at 4
o'clock at ST. Bartholomew Church Will
emphasize the distinction of the noble
bridegroom with a touch of almost royal
splendor, there will be one feature purely
and exclusively American, namely, Miss
Gould's magnificent rousseau.
The work of modelling and making this
elaborate collection Of dresses is entirely
in the hands of 9Th avenue dressmakers
Three noted firms are turning out from
ten to fifteen gowns each. Redfern is
making the wedding gown and the gowns
for the bridesmaids McNally is making
some of the evening gowns. lingerie gowns
and linen suits, and Simcox has the con-
tract for the dinner dresses, the going
away dress and reception gowns.
The entire trousseau will represent an
outlay Of $4,000. and will be the most
costly and the largest that was ever taken
away by an American bride.
Prepares for Coronation Gayeties.
This is due mainly to the fact that she
Is preparing for a long honeymoon and
for the brilliant and varied social gayeties
OF London which will mark the corona
ton OF King George and Queen Mary In
June. The wedding plans have been
made with the greatest care. Members
of the Decies family who arrived Friday
from England have been delighted with
the brilliancy and dignity of the arrange
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their ancient family traditions.
The trousseau will include fifty beauti-
full gowns, chosen with painstaking care
to set off Miss Gould's particular style of
beauty.
Miss Gould's wedding gown will be of
white duchess satin, made on the empire
effect, slightly modified. 1t will be Sc
verely plain, with no embellishments of
lace or trimming. The sleeves Of white
chiffon satin will be tight-fitting, reach
ing to the elbow.
The interesting feature of the bridal
gown will be the court train, five yards
and a half in length, made of heavy white
satin. 1t is heavily embroidered, in design
Of roses and leaves Two little nephews,
Marcus and Graham Beresford. children
of Lord Decies' brother, Of Providence,
r. l., will act as pages, and at the full
rehearsal Of the wedding party Monday
in st. Bartholomew Church the little
pages will be instructed how to carry and
arrange the train as the bride stands at
the altar. The train, it Is said, with its
heavy silver embroidery, weighs more
than twenty-five pounds. Miss Gould will
wear her wedding gown with its magpin-
cent court train when she Is presented
to the English court
Gown Of Coral Chiffon.
One lovely dinner gown is Of coral chif-
fon with the newest tunic panel effect OF
white lace covering the front and back the
length of the gown.
There are half a dozen white serge suits.
One Of these is made with a short skirt,
with a plated panel. extending on one
side from the knees down. The coat is
hip, length. finished with sailor collar
OF the same material. Large white pearl
buttons are the only trimming. With
this is worn a black straw toque, with
large black bow at back and pink roses.
One of the many handsome lingerie
gowns OF the trousseau made of
beautiful handkerchief linen trimmed
with insertion. The skirt has the tunic
effect. The front plastron and upper
part of bodice are of heavy allover en-
broidery. A girdle of old-blue ribbon,
with bow at the back, completes this
attractive gown.
There are several linen gowns, one of
lettuce green with white embroidered
sailor collar and girdle.
The handsome lingerie gowns and sew
eral pretty straw hats ordered by Miss
Gould will be worn during her honey-
moon trip.
In one way the wedding will be quite
English-there will be maids and pages
as we'll as grown-up attendants. Miss
Gould's baby sister Gloria and Diana
Dalziel will be the maids. and Edith
Gould will serve as maid Of honor.
The older girls will be Beatrice Claflin
and Hannah Randolph, who have known
Miss Gould since nursery days; her
cousin, Hope Hamilton: Allison Pierce.
Louise Cromwell of Washington and
Emiline Holmes.
Gives Bachelor Dinner.
dinner tonight at the Ritz-Carlton, will
have his cousin, Lord Alastair Graham,
r. N. son Of the Duke of Montrose. for
his best man, and his ushers will be
Earl Percy, Lord Camoys, Robin Grey,
Anthony J. DreXel. jr., Francis W.
CrowninshielG, Robert H. Russell, Phoe-
nix Ingraham and Moncure Robinson.
February Is the couple will sail on the
Carmania. to spend their honeymoon in
Egypt. They will occupy suite A 1911,
on the upper deck, which has been re-
served by Lord Decies for several weeks,
and is one Of the finest suites on the
ship. The Carmania will call at Madeira,
Gibraltar Algiers, villefranche for Nice
and Naples). and then steam across to
where she is due to arrive
March 8.
After spending few days in Cairo, at
Hotel, and being entertained
by his military friends, Lord Decies and
his bride will start for upper Egypt and
visit Luxor, Thebes, Assouan and the
Island of Philae on Cooks new tourist
steamer Egypt.
If the weather is not too hot 1t is prob
able that Lord and Lady Decies will
continue the journey up the Nile from
Ph!lae as far as Wadi halfa on the sec