HOW A MAN TOOK DOWN THE DRESSES, Etc., AT A WEDDING.

Observer, Volume IV, Issue 84, 22 April 1882, Page 90

HOW A MAN TOOK DOWN THE DRESSES, Etc., AT A WEDDING.

Scene : Office of tlio Auckland " Flambeaux " (sixpenny society paper) . Enter thereto a reporter and the managing editor. - Reporter : I say, I don't know whether this is right. Editor : Don't know whether what is right ? Reporter : This wedding. I went there last night, and tLey gave me a heap of rot aboxit their frocks ; but I don't know whether it comes out straight or not. Now here's Mrs Moses de Tomkins. I've got her in a pannier silt, trimmed ala gros grain, with black point lace underskirt, and box-plaited hair. Does that sound natural ? Editor : Who sent you to a wedding ? Don't you know that gros grain is a colour ? That was a grog, grain, box-plaited dress, trimmed a la black point lace, and her hair was combed en pannier. You ought to know better than to get things mixed that way. Who else did you get ? How was the bride dressed ? Reporter: Oh, I've got her all right. She wore a white bouffant, with a Princess of Thule Teil; the underskirt cut decollete around the bottom, and trimmed with a basque at the sides. Editor : That's better ; that sounds something like. How was her hair ? Reporter : Her hair was shirred. Shirred at the sides, and corsaged on top. Editor : I don't believe that's right ; read that again. Reporter : It was corsaged on the sides, and shirred on the top. Editor : Of course ; that makes all the difference in the world. You never saw a woman with her hair corsaged on top in your life. Who else liave you got ? Reporter : Miss Hilda Cremorne was the bridesmaid. She wore silk socks, with a streak of yellow tapestry up the side. Her hair was bumped. Editor : How do you mean ? Reporter : It was plastered down in front, and stuck up behind like a hen's tail. Editor : Banged, you mean. How was the dress cut ? Reporter : Well, it was an even stretch from the bac 7 £ of her neck half-way up the front stairs. That was one piece. Then she had on a petticoat that showed the whole front, and was trimmed with some cloudy stuff. That back part she called a train, with some kind of a law term in front of it — let me see, ah, a court train, and Tip around the lower part of the top part of whore it hooked on to the body part, you know. Editor : Dashed if I do then. Reporter : She had it tied up with broad white tape, and the darndest by-bow you ever saw. Editor : Certainly, that's right. You want to say that she had a court train looped back with a delicate tape so as to show the contour of the petticoat which was elaborately finished with loops of linen. Reporter : I see. Then there was her cousin Miss Florence Fantan, but I only got her hair. It was poached on the top with revers, and a big pair of silver tongs stuck through the hind part. Better say anything about it ? Editor': Certainly, you've got it right. Did they have a big breakfast ? Reporter : They had boned chicken and lobster grouse, and heaps of sweet things shaking all oyer. ' -Editor : Lots of wine ? Reporter : You bet. Now, I'll just put that Mr Spanning provided the breakfast, and that the table fairly groaned under the weight of his excellent provisions, and even the most fastidious appetites succumbed to the charms of his delicacies. Editor : That's business. If you do it all as well as the last part, you've got a magazine article.