LEGENDARY WEDDING GOWNS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8982, 16 November 1907, Page 3

LEGENDARY WEDDING GOWNS.

EMBLEMATIC OF FAMILY HISTORY. Wedding gowns, whose gleaming satin or silky crep de Chine folds picture some ancient legend or romance, will be one of the pretty fancies of the autumn and winder bride. Society brides, before selecting the material' and style of their frocks, will search the family archives for some tale of love or war, which can be woven in silver threads or embroidered in glittering sequins on their wedding dress. The fashion was started this year by a Scotch bride, who is a direct descendant of Robert Bruce. She chose, as the trimming for her bridal robe, the legend of her great ancestor and the spider. Her white gown was embroidered with delicate silver spider's webs, glittering with miniature moona*pnes. The same design bordered tsTtulle veil. "The legendary wedding gown is one of the prettiest ideas we have heard of," a.well-known Court dressmaker said to a representative of the London Daily Express. "Brides all over the world will welcome a new idea in bridal toilets, because no dress in the trousseau is more difficult to select. Everybody is so thoroughly tired of the conventional white satin.

"A pretty family legend will be embroiderered on one of our bridal gowns this winter. The story tells how a lord of the house was riding oat to fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie. . "As he and his retinue rode over the drawbridge, a poor girl came forward and offered him a sprig of white heather. This he promised to wear as his talisman. The legend goes on to say that in battle the white heather shone like fire, and so blinded the eyes of the enemy that its wearer was preserved from har 30. "The bride's gown, of white crepe de Chine, is to be embroidered with sprays of white heather in silver sequins, and a corOnet of real white heather will replacs the conventional crown of orange blossoms."