Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — WEDDING GOWN OF MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEDDING GOWN OF MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT.

Miss Roosevelt's wedding gown—in fact, the entire trousseau —is of American manufacture. ’Tire material, of heavy pearl white satin and brocade, was designed especially, for the White House bride by a firm in Paterson, N. J. This same firm designed and manufactured Mrs. Roosevelt’s famous inauguration gown brocade. Miss Roosevelt selected her own design. It is a fine cross pattern 'with a orescent scattered at irregular intervals. This brocade will be usediin the full court train of three yards, while the plain satin will make the bodice and panels. Nearly all of Miss Roosevelt’s trousseau is in the liamls of a Baltimore modiste firm that has gowned three generations of the Washington and* Baltimore set. 'Miss Roosevelt will be married in a princess robe, built on severely plain lines. Her robe will lie fashioned according to court regulations, for it is to do dual service, first at the wedding and then at the court of King Edward VII. The train will 'measure three yards and will come from the back widths and swell into billowy folds, with a soft ruffle of chiffon peeping beneath. Miss Roosevelt, who has gained the reputation of being one of the best gowned women in America, has spent much thought on the details of her bridal robe. The bodice will be embroidered in seed pearls and a wide leaf design of soft silks. Some rare old lnee which has adorned the wedding finery of several generations of the Lees. thc*ioaternai ancestors of the bride, toUI sleeves and form a benfma effect. A veil of tulle and orange blossoms will complete the tOilfiKhnd Miss Roosevelt may carry an Ivory prayer book, which lier mother used when she became the bride of Theodore Roosevelt. Some of the evening gowns which Miss Roosevelt is having built may give Londoners and Parisians a new idea of American fabrics and American dressmakers. In the matter of lingerie, Miss Roosevelt has been equally patriotic. All the dainty embroidery and stitching has been given to a girls’ Industrial home in Washington. Nicholas Longworth, Jr., Miss Roosevelt's affianced is shown in the small picture.