Springtime Brings Blithesome Gowns To Grace Her Wedding Days

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 19

Springtime Brings Blithesome Gowns To Grace Her Wedding Days

HUDSON—WESTERMAN A dainty frock of whit© crepe de chine and silver lace, a veil held in place by orange blossom and falling to form a train, and a shower bouquet of Iceland popies, carnations and maidenhair fern, was the toilette chosen by Miss Eva Wes ter man, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Westerman, of Moa Road, Point Chevalier, for her wed ling to Mr. Robert Maudsley Hudson, only son of Mr. Wilfred Hudson, of Hyde Park, Heeds, England. The ceremony was performed in St. Columbia’s Church, Grey Lynn, on Wednesday last. The bride was given away by her father. Miss Dorothy Everett attended as bridesmaid, wearing a frock of duchess blue satin grenadine and silver lace. A hat to tone was worn, and a bouquet : of sweet peas carried. Little Cissy Watson was a flower girl, prettily attired in a frocfe of «unray crepe de chine. She wore a headdress of tulle and carried a basket of spring flowers. Mr. W. Butterfield attended the bridegroom as best man. The service was choral, the Rev. It. Hobday officiating. Friends of the bride decorated the church for the occasion, and the “Wedding March” was played by Miss Houghton. A reception was held by the bride’s mother at her residence. Her frock was of bois de rose silk and lace, and she carried a bouquet of smilax and sweet peas.

“FLAPPER” SPINSTERS WHAT DOES THEIR FUTURE HOLD? To be middle-aged to-day is to have known two distinct types of spinsterhood. The pre-war genre, so provocative of ancient music-hall jokes; and the wartime and immediate post-war product that killed those hoary jests. And now a third type of spinsterhood is foreshadowed. For in neither of these categories can one place the characteristically representative, present-day flapper, “lch dien” is a watchword that holds only boredom for her. It was the ensign alike of the fine .and lovable and valiant spinsters who won through to spiritual and to mental compensations, each after their pre-war and post-war fashion. For the typical flapper, work for her fellows holds no thrill. To have a “good time” is the summum bonum of her aspirations. She hankers neither after the things of the mind nor of the spirit. She is as keen on marriage as was the most pathetic old-time spinster who ever cherished a hopeless passion for the village curate. But she will know nothing of the oldtime spinster’s compensations if she fails to secure a matrimonial life partner. Not at sewing meetings will she ease an aching heart. Not in decorating the village church will she find an outlet for love’s labour lost. Not in the soup kitchen or the orphanage will her frustration-complex be soothed. Nor will mental culture, in which a later generation of spinsters sought exultant solace, serve the flapper-spin-ster in her hour of need. To live for the lip-stick movement, so to speak, is the full extent of her aspirations. Ideals, intellectual or spiritual, are “sentimental punk.” What manner of spinsterhood awaits her, if she must face alone—mentally and spiritually unarmed—the autumnal years, She whose cosmetic mask conceals nothing, since there is nothing to conceal—what solace will she know when the mask becomes a caricaturish grotesquerie? When powder and lipstick make a livid mock of wasted Youth, and express the whole superficial entity of barren Age—save its profound capacity for suffering? That, alas, persists—immemorial legacy of Eve. And spinster-flapperdom will have acquired nothing to assuage the j pangs. J.H.

ROBERTSON—MULGREN

Esther Ellen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mulgren, of Te Aroha, was a ' picturesque bride when on Thursday afternoon she was married at St. ; David’s Presbyterian Church in Te Aroha to Howard, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, of Cheshire, England. Given away by her father, she wore ‘ a delightful gown of macro me lace over a foundation of lotus rose mariette. The skirt of her frock achieved the j fashionable uneven length by the aid of clever side draperies and the corsage was made on slender lines. A long veil of rosy tulle fell as a train from a Juliet cap of line lace caught with trails of orange blossom, and she completed her toilette with a shower bouquet of tulips and pale pink rosebuds. Two maids attended her, the Misses Eva Sweny and Iris Timmins, dressed in peacock and lavender taffeta res- : pectively. The first maid’s frock was given chic by a petalled hem of silved lace and the other attendant had bright loops of silver ribbon decorating her gown. They each carried a dainty bouquet to tone. The marriage service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hay, of Cambridge. The bridegroom was attended by Mr. Frank Mulgren as best man and Mr. ! Ted Mulgren as groomsman.

WILLIAMS—SMITH

Mimosa yellow georgette was chosen . by Phoebe Ada, the eldest daughter of , Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Smith, of Shore j Road, Remuera, for her wedding gown i in which she was married on Thurs- j day afternoon at the Lower Remuera Mission Hall in Victoria Avenue to j Leonard, the youngest son of Mr. W. j Williams, of Matiiroa. The bride’s dainty gown was given j added charm by deep inset panels of j silken needlerun lace and with it she j wore a pretty picture hat of palest i beige crinoline straw. Yellow and white flowers were used for her shower bouquet. Miss Elvie Stilton was a prettily I dressed bridesmaid in a frock of viola j mauve silken crepe with which was ! worn a bandeau of tulle. A bouquet of ! matching flowers was carried. 1 The bride’s father gave her away and ! the Rev. M. Bond conducted the cereI mony. Mr. George AVilliams attended as I best man.

AN ENGAGEMENT The engagement is announced of Annie, eldest daughter of Mrs. Clegg, Spring Street, Ponsonby, to Elias John, youngest son of Mrs. and the late Mr. Marshal], of Elizabeth Street, Edendale.

PUPILS’ RECITAL

EXCELLENT PROGRAMME

A very enjoyable evening was held in the Menurewa Town Hall last evening, when the parents and friends of the pupils of Madam Aileen Frost attended their annual i*ecital. The hall was filled to capacity, and the efforts of the' pupils were well received throughout the evening. Fronds of nikau fern decorated the hall. Mr. W. Wilcox acted as master of ceremonies, and at the conclusion of the evening congratulated the children on the progress made during the year.

Items were given by Owen Gilmour Gladys Osborne, Vincent Marrisoi: Ralph Jenkins, Valerie Burton, Lyndj Collie, Doris Watts, Mavis Rogers Esmay Young, Iris Palmer and Ethe Sainsbury; pianoforte solos, Ima Cop pins, Dorothy Nelson, Vida Gray, Ralpl Jenkins, Gladys Osborne and Madan A. Frost; vocal solos, Philis Rogers IVlargaret Anderson, Heather Finlayson and Clara Darby, charactei sketch.