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What Well Dressed Women Will Wear By MARY MARSHALL - ■ • Copyright, 1924, All Rights Reserved The American Girl Plans Picturesque Wedding Raiment To dress like a princess on one’s wedding day is no mere figure of speech nowadays. Several times this winter prominent young American girls have chosen for their bridal attire gowns the exact counterpart of those worn by the season’s royal brides in Europe. It all may go to show that we Americans, many of us, have a ■rather soft place in'our hearts for royalty. There would be no especial thrill about wearing a bride’s dress that was a popy of one worn by a president’s daugh ter, but to have a bridal dress that is an exact reproduction of one worn by a real live princess is worth the scheming that such an undertaking would entail. That it is possible for any girl of average means to take on the wedding trappings of a princess implies, likewise, that royal bridal clothes have become much simpli fied since those long-ago days when it was proudly said that a bride was so richly dressed that it was impossible to tell the color of her robe for the jewels that covered it. One royal bride this winter stamped with her approval the use of silver ornament on the white wedding gown, for silver bugles were used in connection with pearls in the narrow band ings that ran lengthwise of the gown. Her court train was like wise of silver cloth veiled with silver lace. brom Old Faintmgs Another trick that appeals to some of the season’s brides is to go to some old portrait for in spiration in choosing one’s gown. An old Italian painting gave in spiration for a wide-skirted, very picturesque gown worn recently, and in order to satisfy the whim of the bride the gold brocade which was used with the satin had to be imported from Italy. Then, of course, there is the trick of wearing a wedding gown worn by some once-lovely grand mother or great-grandmother. This, like the fad for wearing re plicas of royal wedding gowns, ap peals very strongly to the Amer ican bride—possibly because it is pot every American girl who can boast an ancestral wedding gown ' A bride recently brought to light the wedding gown of her great great-grandmother, who was mar ried when the Empire mode pre vailed. It was very scant and straight, with tiny elbow sleeves and a round, low neck. Save for the high waistline this gown of long ago was quite in the picture. About the same time another bride went to the altar in the gown her grandmother had worn when the Second Empire mode prevailed— the Civil War period in our own country. And with some slight alterations this was brought into line with the . bouffant wedding gown of the present mode. There you have the situation at present—you may choose between Ventnor Needlecraft Shop 6S10 Ventnor Avenue Yarns Notions Dressmaking and Alterations Birthday Cards Sweaters' “SAY IT WITH FLOWERS” CRANE & HILL, Inc. 1311 PACIFIC AVENUE Marine 2400 Flowers by Wire Singer Sewing Machines * HEMSTITCHING PLEATING GENERAL REPAIRING USED MACHINES Phone: Neptune 957-J i; . B S. Little Rock Are. the gown that is straight and scant and fairly short and the gown that is bouffant in the extreme. If you choose the latter, be sure that the church aisle is wide, and then have a dress re hearsal to teach the bridegroom to-be not to tread too near to the folds ■ of your Empress Eugenie skirt. Wedding gown, off the shoulders, with straps of strings of pearls. When Gloria Gould was married this winter the fullness of .her enormously wide skirt was further increased by two gathered scal loped flounces. It would have satisfied the demands of any Civil War belle. Her bridesmaids, too, wore exaggeratedly bouffant frocks of taffeta silk with widely distended hips. With the wide skirt the bodice is, of course, quite close fitting, and usually joined to the fullness of the skirt not much below the normal waistline. This bouffant type of wedding gown seems to be gaining favor with the younger women, who feel a species of thrill in wearing a gown so distinctly unlike their straight, scant skirts of every day. The French girl—or rather her mother, who probably has more to say about it than the American mother—is more conventional in I 1 ■ 1 Wayne - Leonard Sanitarium 130 S. 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There is a slight draping at the hips, with a cascade of artificial white flowers at the left side, and a train hanging from the low waistline. Sometimes of white satin, sometimes of silver cloth, this gown seldom shows any trim ming. The conventional wedding gown from Madeleine and Madeleine differs not greatly from this. It is straight and sheathlike, bateau necked and long-sleeved. There is a draping of material.at the left side where a large white or silver lily is sometimes placed. The train hangs as part of the sheath from the left side of the back. By way of variety lace is some times used at the neckline or a delicate design of crystal or pearl bead embroidery is used about the center of the gown. In a book on good form pub lished only fourteen years ago the rule is laid down that a wedding dress must never be short and that it must be high-necked al ways. “The sleeves may be long or elbow length as may be fash ionable at the time. Gloves will, of oourse, meet short sleeves.” The decollete effect is taboo as “very bad form,” and even trans parent yokes are regarded as ex treme. Now the really high-necked or collared wedding gown would' be looked upon as a sort of mon strosity. Though an extreme decollete is unusual, no one is surprised, much less shocked, at the wedding gown that shows the shoulders. Often French brides wear long, tight sleeves, but sleeveless wedding gowns are not unusual and the long white glove is by no means a necessity. The lace veil sufficiently drapes the bare arm. When long gloves are worn with the sleeveless wed ding gown they leave enough bare arm above to show that we^have outgrown the old notion that .“sleeves and gloves must meet.” The spring bride will have prac tically the same materials to select from as the winter brides. Silver cloth will still be appropriate, though hardly so for the warm weather wedding. One winter bride wore a gown edged lavishly with white ermine—a trimming that would be a little out of the picture for the Easter bride. It is safe' to say that the Ameri can brides of the spring -will wear more what they want to than what the dressmakers suggest, and the caprice of a spring bride is a rather* uncertain quantity. But it is safe enough to say that as the weeks pass fewer silver cloth wedding gowns will be ordered, while there will be an in creased use of satin or crepe wrought with fine white crystal or pearl beading. It will still go nip and tuck be tween the bouffant wedding gown and the gown that is straight and scant. MARMER’S Sample Shop Second Floor Full Line of SPRING DRESSES SUITS AND COATS The Finest in Town Sizes Up To 52 101 S. ILLINOIS AVENUE (Over Dein's) One Flight Up Saves You 25% to 40% DR. P. C. 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