The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-05-14
SCORES ATTEND
PROGRAM GIVEN
BY J. W. CLUB
Grade School Auditorium
Crowded for Perform
anle Last Evening

Headed by Mrs. Robert Smith
Leona Saloum and Mrs Robert
CoWling MARY jeanette Whittier,
two of Juneau's most recent brides,
the Procession of Wedding Gowns,
featured by the Juneau Woman S
Club, as part of an evenings en-
tertainment, % wedding gowns OF
yesterday and today, marched their
way into the hearts of the large
audience which packed the Grade
School Auditorium to capacity last
night
Modelling their own formal we'd
ding gowns, Mrs. c. j. Davis, Mrs.
John Keyser, Mrs. Judson Whit
tier, and Mrs. Cowling and Mrs.
Smith were supplemented by IT
other models, who depicted the
changing wedding fashions from
1874 to 1910, in colorful parade,
of formal and informal gowns, in
white and in color, of rustling
taffeta and shimmering satin, in
misty net and cloudy tulle, in
hustle, train, basque. crinoline and
stays, showing the style trends OF
almost every decade since 1874.
Brides of 1899 we're represented
by Mrs. Whittier, modelling her own
dress, Miss Jessie Fraser, model
ing the wedding dress of Mrs. Her
bert Redman, and Mrs. c. j Davis
wearing her own gown of net.
various Models
For 1898, Mrs. John Keyser, wear
ing a beautiful gov, Of white
satin with long train and abbrevi-
ated veil, and Miss Dorothy KEN
mer, modelling the wedding gown
of Mrs. Richard Nichols elizabeth
Stewart, Mrs. William M. White
heads formal white satin gown,
with floating veil and orange bios
some, modelled by Barbara Her
mann, and Mrs. Marcus JenSonS
brocaded patent leather satin, mod
eled by Bettey Rice, depicted the
style motif of the formal and in
formal gown Of 1884 Edythe Young,
wearing the beautiful wedding
dress, of Mrs. Stan Grummett,
topped by its quaint tilted hat,
depicted the bride of 1888. Miss
Doris McEachran, wearing a gown
of satin, imported from Italy,
showed the style of 1892, and Miss
Colleen Hellan, wearing the in
formal afternoon gown Of paste.
blue, of Mrs E. l.. Bartlett, of the
year 1880 completed the parade
of the Thirties
Only One of Twenties
The hectic decade of the tWenties
produced but one wedding dress
available for the procession OF last
evening This was the wedding
dress of Mrs. Harry Watson, worn
by her in 1925, at her wedding in
the Governors Mansion in Ju-
neau. Striking unique style note
by being the only short wedding
dress in the parade, it was a knee
length dress of satin with flow
ing veil, modelled by Betty Wilcox.
Supplementing it, as additional
style notes for the weddings of the
20's, were two bridesmaid dresses
of yellow. The first of these, mod
eled by Maydelle George, represent
ed the ''up-in front, down-in-ba back"
styles of 1927. A French importa-
ton, it was a dress belonging to
Mrs. Edith Sheelor, and was pur-
chased by her in Paris, in 1927.
Heavily beaded, of yellow silk, 1t
had matching hose. The second
bridesmaids dress, modelled by
Doris McEachran, was worn by
Mrs. E. l.. Bartlett in 1922. Also
a French importation, 1t was OF
heavy yellow silk, featuring bead
work.
"Teen Years
Two brides of the teen years"
were Miss Beverly Levers, wearing
her mothers wedding dress, COM
plete with train veil and orange
blossoms, represented the year 1915,
and Miss Isabel Parsons, wearing
an afternoon wedding dress OF
royal blue taffeta, made in Ger
many, belonging to Mrs. Goodman
Jensen, depicted the year 1914.
The first decade of the present
century was represented by four
beautiful formal wedding gowns.
Miss Sybil Godfrey, modelling the