Evening star., 1915-11-07

Nine Small and Eight Sir Charles
Grown-Up Attendants. Bell and
Hon. Lilah Wingfield. recently at st.
Margaret's, Westminster. London. was
accompanied by as many picturesque
details as were in vogue before the
war. Lord Powerscourt gave away his
sister, who wore a dress of silver bro
cade, the corsage draped with Carrick-
macross lace, and the train, of silver
tissue, also yelled with lace. The tulle
veil was worn over wreath of orange
blossom.
The bride was followed by seventeen
attendants, of whom nine were child
dren. They wore picturesque Hoppner
costumes of mauve, the boys having
high -waisted trousers, with white
shirts, and the girls frocks of white
chiffon, with mauve sashes, wreathes
Of pansies being in their hair.
The eight grown-up bridesmaids were
Lady Bridget Coke, Miss Muriel Strut,
Miss Eileen Stopford, Miss Rachel Lyt-
telton, Miss Enid Campbell. Miss Joce-
lyn Wingfield, Miss Sylvia Brooke and
Miss Hilda MacGeagh. They wore
Greek dresses in different shades of
fur. while they had gold bandeaux un-
derneath mauve tulle wells. To each
bridesmaid the bridegroom gave a
mauve enamel ball watch on long
chain and a sheaf of lilies, while the
bride presented mauve enamel pendants
to the little girls and waistcoat but
tons to the boys. Capt. Eustace Nor
rison-Bell was his brothers best man.
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Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon of this
city was among the bridesmaids at the
marriage last
Gray Tulle With week in New
Yellow Underneath. F1aanop Ensn Ul Rarts s,ss
lett and Mr.. Carter Phelps. The dress
ing was very smart, the attendants
wearing gray, with a yellow relief
Their short and full frocks were of
yellow satin and tulle. The low tulle
bodices had cap sleeves to match edged
with silver. Narrow silver ribbons
crossed the back at the waist line and
ran down into a wider sash of silver
cloth wound about the slender hips and
held in the center front with silver
buckle, from which fell the ends, ter
minating in silver tassels. Over this
was a straight coat body of unlined
tulle with long sleeves finished at the
| wrists with gray fur; this straight
bodice terminated under the sash. 1t
was finished at the throat with fiat
collar of gray fur.
From the silver girdles fell extremely
| full gray tulle over skirts finished in
a full flare below the knees and bor-
dered with a triLtc box ruche of the
| tulle through whitS ran silver ribbon
| tied at intervals in .cvers knots. Their
gray tulle picture hats had silver frame
work, and at the side were paddle
shaped ornaments OF silver lace. In
stead of flowers they :arried little bar
rel muffs of gray tullt edged with gray
! fur.
! The matron of horror wore palest
gray satin trimmed ia silver and hav-
| ing an .overdress of gray tulle, and
| wore a silver lace hst trimmed with
shaded gray ostrich p]umes and carried
a sheaf of yellow chrysanthemums. :
! The bride wore a short skirted frock
of white satin, the satin falling in ir-
regular futed points over triple pet
ticoat of white chiffon. The very long
court train of white satin was sus-
pended from the shoulders and over the
worn by the brides mother and sister
at their weddings. The low cut corsage
| was draped with point lace. She car
ried an arm bouquet of white orchids.
| The last touch In the matter OF dress
seems to have appeared at the we'd
dings last week
Cloth of Silver and in New York OF
| n, NIL Miss Nj atild d a
| olo""s VI l uAle' Bigelow and Mr..
H. C. Pen and of Miss Marie Taller and
Mr.. s. Bryce Wing.
The frst-named wore silver tissue
and white tulle. the long train being
of cloth of silver. The bridesroom's
present, stomacher Of diamonds and
emeralds, was worn. Her bridesmaids
were in pink tulle beautifully en-
broidered
| Miss Taller wore a wonderful dress.
| ing fabric. 1t was covered with a tunic
of white tulIe. edged with bands of
! silver metal fabric. The train. which
hung from the waist instead of from
| the shoulders, was bell shaped. f1aring
| in fipples toward the end of its length
of several yards. It was of net.
bound with silver all around, and was
caught at the waist in girdle formed
of bands of pearls. The bride wore a
small. tight cap of a transparent fabric,
| and the ancient point d'alencon lace on
the bodice and in the veil was of a rare
| old mesh which has been in the Taller
| family many generations. One of the
| brides ornaments was large brooch
a gift of her father and mother.
! The brides attendants wore costumes
Of pale primrose yellow silk. the
skirts draped in front. In the tightly
fitting oblong bodices was combined
mauve metal cloth, and they had
scarfs Of mauve tulle. The mauve
| chiffon Of their broad-brimmed hats,
| trimmed with few little French flow
ers. was edged with silver, and they
carried mauve orchids.
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When Miss Hope Truxton Beale we'd
ded Oliver E. Cromwell, a former
Wa h ingto-
Bridesmaids in nian. in Phil
Shepherdess Dresses. = va = neadan n
last there were no innovations from
the customary arrangements, even In
| the matter Of dress. The young bride
wore white satin covered with tulle, trim
! med with family lace and made with a
long court train Her long tulle veil was
| fastened with knots of orange bios
soms and her bouquet was a shower OF
lilies Of the valley. The maid Of honor
wore pale blue faille. made on a shep-
herdess model, with wide puffed over
skirts over an exceedingly short drop
| skirt The old-fashioned bodice was
cut with a square low neck. Straps of