Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1918 — When the Wedding Is Simple [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

When the Wedding Is Simple

If, because these are war-times, or for other reasons, the bride makes up her mind to have only a simple wedding, her first step to that end will be . the ordering of a simple wedding gown. Especially if her wedding ceremony is to take place within the walls home, instead of in the church, must she consider what will harmonize best with the home as a background. Long trains and veils and elaborate wedding gowns need spacious surroundings. Where these are lacking the simpler gown leaves the best memories of a pretty wedding. The bride can forego stateliness with a good grace when she recalls all the shimmering and airy fabrics that may be chosen to make a wedding gown of whatever degree of formality. There are those misty materials like fine voile, net, organdie, georgette, and lace all to be made over an underdress of silk or satin, for these are the torms in which the wedding gown is expressed, whatever its style. And then there is the veil, always of maltoes or lace, which may be draped in so many ways that every bride may depend upon it to add to her charm. The simplest of wedding gowns is pictured on the youthful bride who chose it, in the Illustration above. It is df white net, faced about the bottom of the skirt with a wide band of white crepe georgette. Three other nands of georgette are placed about the skirt, all on the finder ride. An underslip of very soft, white satin gleams through the net. There is a draped bodice and sleeves that are elbow length of georgette. Long sleeves, partly covering the hand, are wrinkled over the forearm and disappear under the crepe drapery at the top. A chemisette of

net has a round neck that is entirely plain. moire ribbon'makes the long.'sash that is wrapped twice about the waist and looped over at th* front below the waist line. Orange blossoms appear in a little cluster at the waist and in still smaller sprays where the veil is knotted at each side. Instead of a bouquet, the yoighful bride carries a white prayer book having markers of narrow white moire ribbon with loops and' knots that hold small sprays of orange blossoms. This, and the arrangement of the veil are little Innovations that add a new interest to the always interesting wedding dress. It almost goes without saying that the slippers are of plain white satin and the stockings of silk.