SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 23

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

Something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue, is a tag of which many modern brides have scarcely heard, and green is so generally worn at weddings that it is not necessary to revive the old superstition of that colour being unlucky. Rather out of fashion, too, is the edict that the bride shall give her maids their dresses. In fact, today, some of the bridesmaids are even known to construct the bridal toilette. The modern girl is such a clever needlewoman that when a friend is about to be married she finds time to make her much charming lingerie, a delightful custom that robs the trousseau of much of the terrors of preparation. Friends also help to stock the linen cupboard, so that to the bride’s mother there is little left but the uninteresting but necessary matter of supplying sheets, quilts and tablecloths. These tablecloths, too, are often utility ones, as the bride and her friends have made all the attractive sets of mats for luncheons and dinners. The bride has changed with her apparel. Today she frequently arranges all the wedding for herself. She interviews the caterer, and the florist, as well as the dressmaker. She is businesslike and brisk, and, even on her wedding day, it is unusual to find that she is not available for telephone conversations, or even prepared to see callers. “I will not go to the telephone today.” said a bride last week. And all her friends were most surprised. They rang as a matter of course, just as they had grown accustomed to telephone to other girls on the great day. “Imagine,” the3 r said, would not come to the on her wedding day.” The modern girl has acquired poise, and it does not desert her even on the greatest occasion of her life. In her heart she is just as shy, just as nervous as her grandmother, but training forbids her to show it. And tears? A modern bride would he very properly annoyed if anyone .•ried at her wedding.