The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-27
MULTITUDE WILL
ATTEND WEDDING
OF FPR|NCESSMARY
London Undaunted by Doleful
Weather Forecast
HARVEY WILL BE PRESENT
Ambassador and His Wife Only
Americans Invited to Alb
hey Service

London, Feb. 26,--(By the Associ-
ated PressJ-The air ministry's
weather forecast Of dull, rainy wealth
er for the first few days of this week
has failed to lessen popular enthus-
iasm over Tuesdays great event the
wedding of Princess Mary to Vis-
count Lasceles in Westminster Alb
ley
1t Is fairly certain that even com
bination of one OF London's worst
fogs and torrent.ai downpour
would not prevent muttudes from
lining the route which Is to be trav-
ersed by the state carriage bearing
the brde-eiect and King George and
Queen Mary to the Abbey.
SO far as has been ascerta ned,
George Harvey, the American Am.
bassador and Mrs. Harvey Will be
the ony Americans fortunate enough
to receive invitations to the Abbey
service.
Princess Mary's trousseau is de.
scribed as "youthful.looking and the
last word In smartness" in contrast
with her magnificent bridal gown of
cloth Of silver, W I'll gossamer over.
dress embroidered with pearls and
gold, and court train on white
du Jess satin The remainder on her
trousseau is of marked simplicity.
Most o. the frocks are seven or eight
inches off the ground, and they re-
fleet the new notes in early spring
fashions-the low waist. the girdle,
Grec'an straight shouider-to-shoud-
er neck and i.le round neck, the bell
sleeve, the short sleeve, and the
three-quarter, adapted to the various
times OF wearing and many other
fancies that will be seen in food tide
presently when spring is really here.
The "going-away dress Is in the
soft shadas OF pink and blue, In
which Princess Mary has always
shown a preference II IS Of powder
blue charmeuse embroidered in long
narrow Inc panels from the yoke tc
the hip of the dress in silk and
pa est coral beads and IRISH tails
with a sash of blue charmeuse tied
loosely at the side. over this wiz
be worn a moleskin wrap. T,le
sleeves of this gown are of elbow
length and the bodice is cut slightly
low in front.
Flowers have inspired Princess
Mary's new evening dresses. One Is
OF blended orchid mauve Georgette
arranged over a satin under dress
fantast caly worked with lilies and
silver sequins. forms this dress and
1t is full of harmony for a bride with
golden hair and rosebud skin.
Queen Mary gave Princess Mary
some priceless lace from her noted
collection, and this has been made
into a simple dinner dress with
draped net sides, held in by a chit.
fon waist band. There are tiny
pink roses at the waist and pink
roses at the foot gathered in little
fresh clusters.
Blue has been utilized for two ad.
ditlonal evening dresses, one OF sky
blue satin and chiffon with damante
shoulder straps and bet, and a sec
ond of sapphire blue and gold th
short underdress of the two shades.
There also is an eau de nil chiffon
tea gown that is a triumph OF the
dress designers art. 1t sh miners
from neck to train with cleaning iri.
descent spangles
A real lace evening gown in deen
cream color Is made with straight
panels and a draped baby bod ce; l.'r
skirt is lightly draped at the sides
and caught In at the low waist W N
a chiffon sash held in place with
lunches of dark and light pink roses
and finished wit} a big bow at III,
back, There are lunches o. pink
roses holding up the cassad.ng lace
at the bottom OF the skirt. 1t is
mounted on real lace net, A black
georgette and sequine evening dress
is embro dered In panel design with
t3e sequine and is made in straight
lines with square neck, short sleeves
and an embroidered g.rd,e round the
waist.
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