Evening star., 1926-04-11
BY MARY MARSHALL.

N 70 one is more interested In the
Easter bride than the girl
who Is planning to be mar
/ ried in June. And so far as
clothes are concerned, the
June bride has the advantage. The
Easter bride tries out the new fash
ions in bridal attire and the June
bride reaps the benefit. Besides, when
weather is nlilder the bride can plan
a truly summary wardrobe, while the
Easter bride must be prepared for
several weeks of unsettled weather.
The taffeta bridal gown is one of
the novelties or revivals of the sea-
son. Once this material would hardly
have seemed appropriate. Brides all
wore white satin. But now taffeta
is as soft and plant as satin and it
lends itself we'll to the new full-skirt-
ed frock that gives such picturesque
note to the wedding tableau.
The question of skirt length for the
bride is one that seems to cause some
perpie5:.Itv aud Snre6 OF the Spring
brides have solved it by wearing
frocks that are from the point of
view of present fashions very long.
Sometimes the attendants, too, have
frocks so long as to seem positively
quaint
But for the most part short skirts
are chosen. They have come to be
so much a matter of course that very
few observers would see anything in
congruous about knee-length skirts
with formal train and veil. Sometimes
a. compromise is achieved by making
the substantial part Of the skirt quite
short and then adding a deep border
of net or other transparent material.
One way you look at the frock 1t
seems as short as fashion demands,
and another it is as long as old-time
convention would have demanded.
Despite short skirts. bridal trains
are in favor. often they appear to
be afterthoughts, and more often than
not hang from the shoulder, giving
the appearance of elongated back
capes. One of the new bridal gowns
OF American design. made of georgette
and satin embroidered in crystals and
pearls, has a shoulder train of this
sort made of satin edged with large
scallops and trimmed with insets of
rose point lace.
Another frock of white taffetta, with
the short, full skirt elaborately trim
med with frills of the taffeta and fes-
toons of artificial flowers, has an
enormously long train of taffeta with
festoons of the artificial flowers by
way of decoration.
Gold or silver is no longer cause
of comment in bridal frocks and ac-
cessories. A recent bride wore a frock
of silver lace shot with rose, and hung
from her shoulders was q stately train
of cloth Of silver.
Within a few weeks of each other
two charming sisters were married.
The frocks chosen by these two sis.
ters We're quite different, but they
wore the same train, an enormously
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that any princess of romance might
have envied.
So the wedding train seems to have
taken on new importance and no bride
who has a really formal wedding now
adays thinks of going to the altar
without one. But whatever connec-
tion ever existed between trains and
skirts has entirely vanished. Your
wedding frock may end just below
your knees and your train may
stretch out for five yards.
And don't imagine that the dress
maker considers this train as part OF
the frock when she quotes you your
price for making the frock. The frock
will be so much-and the train, like
the heels on your shoes, will be 'ex-
ira" This very fact is an advantage,
even an economy-for the train can be
laid aside and the frock beneath worn
FOR other occasions.
Children seem to play an increas-
ingly important role in fashionable
weddings nowadays. And If a girl
ever regrets having no small relatives
or friends to call upon it is when she
is planning her wedding. Sometimes
the little girls are called flower girls
or train bearers and sometimes merely
bridesmaids For ones bridesmaids
may be of almost any age.
Small boys if dressed in picturesque
attire add a pleasing touch to the