BRIDAL FASHIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1940, Page 5

BRIDAL FASHIONS

TRENDS IN RECENT TIMES BEWITCHING STYLES PREDOMINANT. REVIEW BY NOTED ENGLISH JOURNALIST. Among the first results of the outbreak of war was the number of wedding announeod. Many were “quietly at so-and-so, because of the situation,” and to road ol them is rather heartening. This article, by JI. Pearl Adam, a noted English journalist, tells some of the recent trends in bridal fashions.

■Tn the last twenty years we have heard enough and too much of young people marrying lor every reason except sentiment, and for any time except that lifelong engagement- which can really be called “the duration. ’ Tt was partly their own fault, for they talked airily ol getting married for a while to see what it, -was like, or having a shot at it because they didn't have to stay married, or being willing’ to try anything once, and so on. Then a steel shaft of reality’

speared the national life, and pretence fell away. All the planning for satin and lilies and bridesmaids and honeymoons went liy the board/ Miss This and Mr That hastily collected some parents and aunts anil a few friends, and went to church in a pretty afternoon frock and old tweeds (or a new uniform) to make sure that romance had to itself the first act of a play which threatened to turn to tragedy. Sunshine looks very bright when clouds are on the horizon. It is good to see weddings shining against that background, to find common sense maintaining itself throughout the British race, which is al wavs particularly sentimental. The mixture is peculiar to that race. If the war is to be short, there is no reason why weddings should not take place. If it is to be long, the young people had bet 7 ter take what the}’ can of the normal. &