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HE practical advantage of wedding dress that can

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be worn as an evening dress later or is responsible for many brides choosing a ready- made frock conforming to the fashion of the moment, instead of a frock designed for the occasion, which emphasises the wearer's good points. And yet if ever there was a time when any girl can afford

20 cast utility to the winds and choose that one dream frock, which she confidently feels was meant specially for her, it is surely on her wedding day. A pic- turesque bride occasions So much more delighted interest

How Some Wedding Customs Began

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T is only natural that such an ancient institution as marriage should have produced more legends, superstitions. and ancient customs than any other, and that the knowledge of history and mythology which mos: of us possess is mainly connected with riage too!

For instance, we all know who Cupid was, but some of us have to pause a moment when June's name is mentioned, although as Queen of the Heavens she was a much greater deity and, as for history, everyone knows how many times, Henry VIII •Was ried, but it is not everyone who the can say when he came to throne of England, or even be cor- rect within 50 years of that date. From Hand To Heart

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The wearing of rings has long been -connected with marriage. *Roman times the man gave the the a ring to wear on third finger of her left hand, be sause it was believed that a deli- cate nerve ran from that finger to the heart. Later, the connection was believed to be a vein running

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than a merely fashionable one.

It is impossible to spend too much care and thought on your bridal retinue, for how often in the most elaborately planned scheine does one small error of judgment strike a jarring note!

The main consideration in dis. cussing clothes for a wedding is to see that the style of dresses chosen is suited to the particular bride and her bridesmaids. For every woman there is one style of frock that

more becoming than.. any

ocher and whether it is

between inger and heart, and the love lyrics of the seventeenth cen- . tury often referred to this.

The Roman wedding-ring how ever, was never of gold: only sena- tors and chief magistrates were privileged to wear gold rings.

An Invitation

In France until recent times if a person was willing, to marry 'bus not engaged he or she wore a ring on the index finger; engaged, on the second finger; if married, on the third finger; but a ring worn on the little ánger indicated that the wearer had no desire to marry. It is significant perhaps that at the present day there is a feminine fashion for wearings rings on the first finger!

One of the most curious anciert customs

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in ceremony was Venice of throwing a ring, into the sea on Ascension Day, as a sym- bol of marriage; a large gold ring was solemnly thrown into the Adriatic by the Doge, with the words, "We wed thee, O sea, în token of perpetual domination." Thus Venice was known as the Bride of the Sea

Triumphal Wreath

In ancient Rome and Greece marriage was accompanied by the wearing of a bridal wreath to in- dicate triumph. In modern days, a wreath is perhaps worn purely for decorative reasons, and brides are reluctant now to advertise the

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fashionable or not, that is the style she should choose for the Day of Days.

Present-day fashions are parti- o cularly kind to the bride to be; the long classical lines and the full bouffant picture frock-both the mode of the moment--allow cremendous latitude in one's choice. at Even the fashionable fullness the back can be turned to good advantage, for the skirt is easily eloagated to form a train, so much more becoming than 2 separate train.

sentiment which made the Roman- brides bedeck their heads. with laurel crowIMS.

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Similarly the bride-cake originat- ing from those days has under-

essential changes. modern elaborately rich cake has replaced the Romani bride-cake made salt, water and flour, of Thich the happy pair were made to partake, presumably to intro- duce them to married life "know- ing the worst" of each other, in the throes of indigestion.

Amongst the highest classes in Rome, the bride was conducted to the ceremony not by maids of honour but by bachelors and led bone again by a married. man silver and bearing a vessel of gold. Orange Blossom for Fruitfulness The use of orange blossom for the bridal decorations has only become general in comparatively recent times, since flowers have been used for decorative purposes. The orange blossom

found suitable and owes its adoption to an ancient custom-of the Saracen brides, who wore orange blossoms to indicate the hope of fruitful- ness, as there are few trees. more the The whiteness of prolific blossom is a symbol of innocence and chastity,

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There used to be a belief in England that if the bride did not weep copiously at the wedding,