SUPERSTITION.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

SUPERSTITION.

TOSSED TO WINDS. (By A Londoner.) Green is a strong feature of the season, and varies from light to dark. But the most astonishing thing about green is the way it has been taken up by brides. This week there is a bride wearing a green wedding dress, and another has the bridesmaids in green and streamers of green on her owm dress in a pale jade green. Yet an- j other had her dress of white cream , velvet made with a train of the same | material lined in green, while her bridesmaids had dresses in mediaeval styles, shading from leaf-green to a deep olive tone. Mothers of brides don't like it, and wonder what will come of it, but the modern girl does not heed her mother when she shows signs of superstition. ; Horseshoe for Good Luck. When brooding over the fearlessness of these young women in tempting fate it is refreshing to find the Duke and Duchess of York attending the Good Luck BaLl and showing their pleasure in the huge silver horseshoe under which they passed. Their table was set in the shape of a horseshoe, and the silver menus were in the same shape. It was one of the big

successes of the little season, which has depended, to a large degree, on charity functions for its amusements. I never remember such a season of charity functions, and private entertaining, save for these affairs, is largely at a standstill. One of the few private parties was given out of town by an eligible bachelor, for which many eligible girls, with their chaperones, came from London. The host was young Sir Richard Sykes, whose sister will be one of the coming debutantes, and all her young friends came down to Siedmere for the occasion, wearing their ankle-length frocks in white and lovely colours. Elder sisters and mothers were in black fishnet, flowered lames, black lace, bishops’ purple georgette, and greens in many materials.