WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 16 November 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted by "Eileen.") NEW ZEALAND WEDDING IN LONDON. MAXUKA BOUQUETS.

London, September 29. A very pretty wedding, and one that will be of much interest to New Zealandcrs—in Unit both the family of the bride ami the bridegroom are very well known in the Dominion—took place in St. .Judc's Church, South Kensington, on Wednesday. September 27, when Miss Cecil Margaret Williams, daughter of the late Mr J. H. Williams, of Hawke's Bay, was married to Mr. Hall Williams. MJ. Mech. 1., etc., who has long been resident in London, and is a son of the late Mr. John W. Williams, of the Bav of Islands, and Mrs. Williams, of Gisborne, and a grandson of the Ven. Archdeacon Henry Williams, the first Archdeacon of Waimate. and of Mr. .lames Busby the first British resident in New Zealand St. Jude's, a church with a collection of very fine .stained glass windows, wa.s simply but prettily decorated for the occasion with giant palms, white lilies ' and crysanthemums. and for some time I before half-past 2, the hour fixed for the ceremony, the. guests, among whom were quite a number of New Zcalanders j kept arriving. The bride, who was given away bv Sir William Russell, of Hawke's Bav, looked ven- pretty in a wedding gown' of ivorv brocade, trimmed with Cnrrickmiicrow applique lace, and with a small square train. She wore a plain tulle veil over the customary wreath of orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley. There were three bridesmaids-the Misses Xorah and Marjorie Williams (sisters of (he bride) and Miss Violet Russell (daughter of Sir William Russell). and these wore gowns of ivory' laee. and large pale pink straw bats trimmed with black tulle and lined with black velvet. It will interest Xew Zcalanders to know that their bouquets were of pink carnations and manuka real Xew Zealand manuka—the seed of which was sent to the bridegroom from Xew Zealand, and grown in Devonshire. The bridegroom's gifts to the bridesmaids were gold bangles. Mr. Ernest Blyth, of Leamington, acted as best man. The officiating clergy were the Rev Percy Thompson (vicar of Kippington and rural dean of Rochester), the Ven Archdeacon Walsh (of Waimate Vorth' Xew Zealand), and the Rev. K 0 Wil' barns (cousin of the bride), also a Xew !

Mr. and Mrs. Williams spent their honeymoon in Scotland, the bride's <*o-mg-away dress being of pale grey chiffon velvet, with hat to match.

LONDON FASHIONS. , GREAT TXXOVATIOXS IX IHTEDRESSING. London September 2ft Pans has spoken, and Paris says that we are to robe ourselves in clothes rich but sombre. England has spoken, with a certainly most admirable independence and whispers that we mav go abroad in every color of the rainbow that will come under the head of "oriental " for she says the craze for Orientalism is to return with renewed vigor this year' It will be interesting to watch which'prediction triumphs. As a matter of fact, many of the greatest couturierea are still silent, waiting, probably, for rich clients to turn their thoughts from the moors. FICHUS. Fichus of the Marie Antoinette fashion are being widely sported now, as it was prophesied in Paris some weeks back, and it should be noted at once that there are women who should never allow one on their gbwns. Prettv, graceful, and essentially feminine these"aceessorics are, and worn by the tall, straight, slim woman they look charming. Already however, one meets them on wearers more than half inclined to embonpoint, some with rather round shoulders, and manv of medium, or less than medium height By all these fichus should be strictly tahoo. as the cape-like, draping but draws attention to deficiencies in stature or to plenteous plumpness. The separate panel on cloth costumes has gone out. but the new small square trains on evening gowns, it is said, will all be of the separate description. ' LOPSIDED GOWXS. Lopsided gowns, surely idiotic as to 'style," are with us again this vear as last. One that was showing this weekwas of grey striped tweed, showing a short, plain skirt, and a hip-length coat buttoning invisibly over to one side. The only trimming consisted of a narrow black satin roll collar, which was continued down one side with a long lapel reaching to the very edge of the coat, and one cuff. The left side of the coat and the left sleeve were quite untrimmed. SWATHED HEADGEAR. Yet again—was ever a fashion so persistent—our millinery is to give us the appearance of women just emerging from the bathroom. Tie'our heads up we must, and hide our hair, our ears, and part of our neck. The maived is that such a wilfully ugly arrangement can find the admirers it' does, for one sees women old, young, prettv, plain, stout and thin in the horrid things. Some of this yiiirV, models are of beaver and In-or-i-de. lightly wound round the head. otlii-m ;■!,• of two-colored straw, and yet others are of Mvathed silk

AVhite felt hats, not really popular for some timo past, now arc to return to favor, and they are being made in velvety felt that'is very pretty. Pome of the largish shapes draped with sashes of fringed silk are very becoming. THE SUM SKTRT. The -'im skirl has not been entirely dethroned: in fact, in Paris it is almost as much in favor as over. But it is draped with a second skirt, or a tunic, or a sash, or some kind of draper which dissimulates the tightness, and does not lake away from the slimness of the line in the whole fisurc. For morning wear if i- still to he worn short; for afternoon wear it is longer, and sometimes has a short train; for evening wear it is decidedly longer and with as I said earlier, a train. LACE AND FIT!.

M. Worth, the great designer, once asserted that lace and fur could never make an artistic, combination. This seemed to be a statement that would he disputed hv many, and this year there is everv sign that we shall see many examples of the partnership, and used in ways that are very artistic A rich creamy lace cravat worn with a sable, stole or cape often only enhances the beauty of the fur, and in millinery the two go together admirably. A' very handsome three-quarter coat shown this week is of ermine, with trimming of verv vin guipure lace draped sliav,! wise round the shoulders and over the arm-'. TDK EVFR-PTIFvPEXT TSAO. The latest fad among American girls is to carry bags ornamented with modelled and colored fruits, the bags being gigantic in comparison to anything seen ns i-ot. enme snecimens being as much as 2ft long and l'/ s ft deep!

lIAIRDRESSIXG. Great changes are predicted in fashions in hairdressing, and changes tlutt hairdressers, it is safe to prophesy, will do their best to circumvent, for pads and false curls have no place in the newest styles, when simplicity is to be the order of" the day and night. Short, straight fringes —partings, close bands and waves of hair—and not even a suggestion 'of "pulling," will be innovations indeed. 'Of these more later, if they come to favor. THE HAREM. The harem has gone, if, with one or Lwo exponents, it can ever have been said to have come, but its influence is decidedly traceable still. Some new costumes of tweed have the skirt split up, with a couple of cuts at each side about 4in long, so that the boots show through. There doesn't seem much sense in that style. REVERSIBLE COATS. Reversible coats, in thick blanket cloth, in grey, reversed with green or blue, blue vice versa, black with red, brown witli green, etc., are evidently to be very popular. All show the long wide revev or revers. MUFFS. Muffs so far show no sign of being -as immense as they have been for the past j two winters, and ar* now about 12in long and inclined to be flat. Velvet, that most becoming of ma- ! terials. is again, everyone will be glad to i hear, to lie fashionable, and some very beautiful evening coats are being shown. One that was showing yesterday was of electric blue velvet, with the rever and broad turned-back cuffs embroidered in silver Another was of black velvet with one long rever of white fur, and a very beautiful model of pale grey embossed chiffon velvet, with no trimming save the great enamelled grey button that fastened it.