AN AT HOME

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 226, 13 December 1927, Page 4

AN AT HOME

FOR BRIDE-ELECT Mrs. W. E. Allen was the hostess yesterday afternoon at a charming function held in the Ellerslie Racing Club’s tearooms in honour of her daughter, Miss Doreen Allen,, whose wedding takes place to-morrow. Gracefully arranged vases of beautiful mauve irises decorated the tables and were prettily grouped with bowls of pastel-tinted sweet peas and fern. Mrs. Allen wore an attractive frock of navy blue georgette, with gold and moonlight-blue embroidery and a smart hat of navy blue with an osprey plume. Miss Doreen Allen chose a frock of spotted navy and white crepe de chine and with it she wore a white hat. Mrs. D. Hunter, a sister of Miss Allen’s, who assisted in receiving the guests, wore a georgette frock of rose du Barri toning, relieved with white embroidery and a leghorn hat trimmed with pale tinted flowers. Among those present were: Mrs. Cleghorn, Mrs. J. Reid, Mrs. Sinclair Reid, Mrs. F. H. Pope, Mrs. R. Coleman, Mrs. H. C. Tewsley, Mrs. EN. Tewsley, Mrs. H. Mowbray, Mrs. Newton, Mrs. F. P. Worley, Mrs. N. "Brett, Mrs. Trevor De Clive Lowe, Mrs. N. Bagnall, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Osborne, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Percival James, Mrs. J. Hay man, Mrs. McGruer, Mrs. Finn. Mrs. H. Gilflllan, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Leatham, Miss Joan Cleghorn, Miss J. Reid, Miss R. Coleman, Miss D. Tewsley, Miss Phyllis Lindsay, Miss Enid White, Mifes Edna Kenderdine, Miss Betty Sinclair-Lockhart, Miss Ngaire Smith, Miss M. Grant, Miss Helen Hay, Miss Edna Rhodes, Miss F. Adams, Miss Doris Jamieson, Miss Rita McGruer.