Innovation for Modem Brides

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)

Innovation for Modem Brides

TROUSSEAU TEAS Trousseau tea parties, at which friends of the bride-to-be are permitted to view her new collection of lingerie, are a modern innovation due to the beauty of lingerie as it is created to-day, writes Marianne Mayfayro in the London Daily Telegraph. Colours, tho loveliest of pastel hues, handwoven satins, silks and crepe suzettes, delicate hand embroideries, hand-made lace *nd applique work, allied to exquisite atitchery and grace of line, bring these garments into the fascinating realm of fashion. The bride herself may act as mannequin in showing her girl and women friends the lovely models which have been specially chosen to become her colouring. Ono cannot imagine the Victorian bride “throwing” a tea-party in honour of her new dozens in white lawn and calico, with stiff embroidered edges, including a fine selection of white, blue, and ping “ petties’’ in heavilyembroidered woollens. With presentday brides, however, it is au entirely different affair. There is an intriguing variety of fabric, colour and design, and this aspect of tho trousseau ranks in importance with her frocks and house linens. Modern brides are practical, too, in their choice of farbrics. At a house noted for lingerie elegance and distinction, where many fashionable brides choose their trousseaux, handwoven satins and lightly-brocaded silks are guaranteed to wear three years. Coronation blue is one of the latest lingerie colours. This is a deep iceblue, very lovely in satin when it takes a lighter sheen in the folds, and the self-toned hand embroideries. Pastel colours in peach, pink, and blue arc other tints in vogue, used with either a light or dark toned hand-made lace and net insertions, or the fine hand embroidery in self colour which plays such an important part in modern lingerie decoration. Typical of modern taste in all phases of fashion is the fact that no two “sets” of the trousseau of to-day are alike. Each has its owa individual ueedlecraft. White, palest ice-blue, peach and subtle tones of pink, with u deeper note of colour for travel, are those most usually chosen. Every set , is different in fabric—satin and crepe 1 suzette are fashionablo materials, and also varies in treatment of the decorative embroidery or lacowork. The handsome point turequt worked in seif colour on satin may adorn one set. This is a fine tiny open work used as a background for applique motifs. Pin stitch and drawn thread work appear on another. Fine Richelieu embroidery is also used. There is a great variety in hand-made laces, always in fine and intricate design, and in the shaping of the appliques of lace or embroideries. Six sets of three garments, brassiere, panties and petticoats, half a dozen nightdresses with their own charming little shoulder capes or coatees to match, negligees and slips for wear under frocks, are tho main items to be considered in a modern lingerie trousseau, in which elegance is cleverly allied to the practical. The cost may vary from £25 to £SO. In the opinion of a lingerie expert, eyes and hair are the determining factors in choosing tho most becoming lingerie colours, which, for the young girl, should always bo in delicate pastcfl tones, and, of course, white.