Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1915 — Bride and Her Flower Girls [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bride and Her Flower Girls

CREPE DE CHINE, satin and chiffon are the materials chosen to make up this adorably becoming wedding gown. It is made with a train of only medium length, the underskirt veiled with a tunic of chiffon bordered with satin. In the bodice the underpart of crepe de chine is also veiled with chiffon, and the long sleeves are made of the latter material. A small overbodice of satirf hardly amounts to more than wide suspenders over the sleeves, but gives opportunity for turned-back revers of satin veiled with chiffon, in which a pattern of fine hand-wrought embroidery is displayed. The pretty bride has departed from the regulation high neck and allowed herself a round, moderately low neck, in the bodice. An independence which one is glad to commend, since it is particularly in keeping with the materials used, and immensely becoming to the possessor of a lovely neck. The veil of tulle is very full, falling from a little cap finished with a spray of orange blossom buds and lilies of the valley. The veil is longer than the train by a few inches. Altogether, for a wedding gown of moderate cost thisis as charming as anything one could hope to find. The little flpwer girls are dressed in

light pink, their frocks having long bodices and short accordion-plaited skirts of crepe de chine. Lace and net are used in the sleeves and neck of these pretty gowns, but they axe not made exactly alike. It is only in small details of decoration and finishing that they differ. Each little maid wears a broad sash of black velvet ribbon and a quaint bonnet of pink chiffon finished with narrow black velvet ribbon. They carry wicker baskets holding fine ferns and pink roses and having handles to which filmy bowg of pink gauze ribbon are tied. The final glory of the trio is the bouquet of the bride, a great cluster of white roses with lilies of the valley and ferns intermingled. Long pendenf ends of narrow satin ribbon, into little spray* of lilies are tied, fall almost to the bottom of the gown.