HER TURN NEXT

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 19

HER TURN NEXT

YOU riiay have your bridesmaid dressed m a foam of "*■ frills — a straight little flared frock— or one of- the period gowns^ which" have been much m favor this season. One bride brought hooped skirts back to the scene of action, and, with a couple of wed Charles 1., flowergirls to scatter rosebuds at her feet, looked very charming and old-timey. ' - . Another dressed Eton-cropped bridesmaids ln= stiff little frocks of jade green taffeta, with high Medici collars of real lace. The young thing m the picture wears a ruffled gorgette frock of peach-pink shade, and, with her soft, drooping picture hat, she'd look very gay at a garden wedding, with a background of rose and lilac bushes..

The new idea of a pastel- tinted bride is making the k Crocking' of .bridesmaids a "-bit dlnlcult. , . ln' the old, days of the all-white bride, it was easy enough to provide a color scheme. And when the first faint; dawn-pink tints began to creep under. tulle veils, they, still didn'tI have much effect on the color harmony of the bridesmaids. ... ..- . .

But now that a bride has '/touches" of her favorite color wherever she likes on 7 her ' frock, and usually underlines her veil with some-7 delicate shade, one has' to be very ( careful that bridesmaid frocks neither clash with, nor -"kill, the softer tints. : One of this season's prettiest weddings had a sort of pastel rainbow distributed among 'the bridesmaids — palest green, yellow, blue and lilac frocks,: witb-^hiff on velvetatbps arid- net skirts deepening gradually : m; shade towards the uneven hems. ■■'■ -.■ ••'■ -7 ,> ' ."a .= ; ;>-7v "■

Bridesmaids' "presents are' -'a huge problem. One groom concentrated on necklaces of crystal beads alternating with stones' the color- -of the -respective frocks. And at a very simple little wedding the presents :were the lovely hand- painted scarves which look as if a flock of silver petals had blown down on them. :

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