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The lovely traditional wedding dress which Lady Winifred Cecil, Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Gloucester, wore for her marriage to Lord Hotham on December 16. Tinling made it of magnolia white satin, with lines converging to a shirred chou of the same fabric, setting for a huge flower spray of family diamonds.
Joan Beringer's Fifteen Minutes for
Beauty
3. MANICURE
THIS is your third-day treatment-first was
on Wednesday,
T
HE emotions being involved, fur
Motley made recently a wedding dress of usually flies over the choice of a peuch damask, and another of palest butter wedding dress. This is because: (a) yellow moire: so colour has really come to stay. There's more in it than meets the eye. WOOL
"The veiled victim" is how unkind cynics If colour is a stumbling block, one can choose (b) Sisters, to be unconventional in choice of fabric. Motley, often describe the all-white bride. mothers, cousins and aunts tend to forget that, being a firm of young theatrial designers who after all, it's not their wedding. (c) The bride know about clothes in relation to their setting, wants her own way, but is often not clear what use a great deal of wool and cotton for wedding
dresses. her own way is.
Thus, in order to put her case clearly to hysterical relatives, she may well assemble the following relevant facts for and against a tradi- tional white wedding.
FOR TRADITION
White face-cluth, for example, falls into beautiful folds, and has the dramatle quality very necessary for a dress which is viewed from a distance.
One of their loveliest dresses was of white face- cloth cut on very flared princesse lines, with pinked edges. A hot idea for the cold weather bride! With white directoire suits the bridesmulds carried bunches
An essential part of the ritual is that the of eut felt flowers in autuinn colours.
bride should wear white.
If she does not, why COTTON
be married in church at all?
When a girl gets married, she doesn't want
The bride who can't afford to spend a fright-
Our second sketch shows Motley's romantic young bride's dress of while lisse, with cotton bobbles from n white curtain fringe sewn ull over it.
to draw attention to herself by being very un- ful lot on her dress will 'like the modern feeling conventional in her choice of wedding dress; after for cottons. all, the outward form of marriage ceremony is in itself conventional: why not observe it?
And the relatives will be so upset not to see dear Julie in white: why not for one day agree to be a victim to family pride? Does it matter so much either way?
AGAINST
The essentials of the ceremony are not in You are any way affected by what you wear. just as well and truly married in a plain suit as
in a cloud of tulle.
all
That being so, there is no reason at why white is better than any other colour.
As for the relatives, it's not their wedding, And the bride however much they may think so. who begins by playing juvenile lead instead of leading lady at her own wedding may continue in that minor role all her life. COMPROMISE.
"What will happen in the end-is-that-there- will be a compromise. Julie, having sworn to be married, at 8 o'clock in the morning with no fuss and wearing a suit, will finally consent to have a white frock, though' not necessarily one "cut on classic lines."
After all, it is true that an over-romantic wedding dress is perhaps a little "stagey." There could be nothing lovelier than the traditional type of creamy satin bride's frock, like this one, sketched at the left, made by Tinling for Lady Winifred Cecil. It is a dress that accentuales dignity and simplicity: a good lead to follow for any bride,
On the other hand, coloured wedding dresses, or dresses of unusual cut, are being worn. Many of the great houses show misty blue, or dove grey, or silvered rose wedding dresses. And
second yesterday. Cut this out round the dotted line and Finling (who has always been a champion of the paste it on cardboard. Then hang it up somewhere convenient
for future reference.
You will need:--
A bowl of soapy water and a towel-Poilsh remover-Cuticle softener and all cleanser-Varnish and enamel polish or powder.-Cuticle cream or ol-Emery board-Orange stikk-Cotionwool-Buffer.
Don't Forget
a. That unless your hands are long and thin you cannot wear dark polisites.
bride, and fights many battles against adamant relatives, so that she can have exactly what she wants) is making a gold dress for one beautiful dark girl. And she will carry red roses. But she A will be veiled from head to foot in gold net. lovely idea for an unusual exotic sort of person.
And, believe it or not, the bridesmaids' dresses were made of old-fashioned striped curtain muslin, with skirts in full sail, tiny, tiny bodices and sleeves, and high waistline sashed with me yellow felt. Wide leghorn hats wreathed in pink and yellow felt flowers completed the dellelous rustic flavour of this wedding corlege.
CO
OMBINING -whiteness and brightness: cotton dots on a
fluffy
transparent Iss
dress by. Matley.
M. F.
茶
Are You A Cruel-to-be-Kind Mother?
often hear the phrase used myself gladly and uncomplainingly
But the cruelty lay in the fact that
b. That if the Angers are short, nails must by filed to almond shape; when a child has been punished she has never been given any Idea now her daughter had started life
and varnish applied from cuticle to tip, but not quite to sides of nail.
e. If the nails are too large for beauty, merest line uncoloured should be left right round-sides, tips half-moons,
BEGIN your manicure by removing every trace of old polish.
With the rough side of an emery board, file the nulla, not too closely from sides to centre. Work out the rough edges from beneath the nail with an orange stick, and finish off until perfectly smooth with the other side of the emery board.
child.
for something or other, "Sometimes of the struggle it has been to rear on her own, and what a terrible
she awakening lay before herl you must be cruel to be kind, you and educate her. And now, know!" This is perfectly true, and leaves me like this! What can have
This was the fault of the devoted her. do it what can
have ns it should be. The great trouble made with so many modern parents to- turned her from the dear child she mother, not the "selfish child." day is that they aller the process was into the selfish, heartless girl Parents Most Common Mistake they are cruel by being kind! she has become?"
Perhaps the most common, and The other day I had the painful The mother was sincere, but she experience of listening to the woes had no idea that she had actually certainly the most dangerous, of all the mistakes made by the short- Dip fingers in bowl of warm, soapy water, and leave for two minutes. of a mother whose only child- answered her own question.
is this business of Dry well. Wrap cottonwool round orange slick, dip in cuticle re- daughter-had just left home,
She, and none other, had made sighted parent
and sheltering" the mover and press back cuticle. Don't break cuticle or bruise nail. Cleanse
Her mother-had, it seemed, taken her daughter "selfish and heartless." "protecting" beneath the tips with this liquid.
Now for an expect touch which many women omit, but which will exception to the friendships she had She had never realised the truth of child. And this applies more parti- make all the difference to the sparkle of your varnish. Apply an enamel formed, and the daughter had said, that old adage "An unselfish mother cularly if it happens to be an only
"Very well, mother, if you choose makes a selfish child."
lad I told her (as I was tempted polish and buff really well before applying your varnish.
to take things like that..." And the
The business of bringing up à chlid Varnish must go on swiftly, evenly, in direct strokes from cutlete to next morning sit had packed her to do) that what had happened was entails, or should entail, infinitely tip. Never use enough varnish on the brush to do with nails at once. things and gone!
her own fault, and that instead of
mother the perfect
sho more than merely seelnit that its Rest and relax while your finger tips dry. Then a final touch of, the "She went," the mother told me brained herself to be, the had health is good and that its physical enamel polish, rub then up again with a silk handkerchief over the palm without a thought for me at alll So netually
been a cruel parent, she needs are met. The first and most Now, and not before, just touch the cuticles with cuticle oil to keep far as she is concerned I don't seem
prepare the child for facing life, for them supple. and you have beauty at your finger Ups.
She had
deliberately kept "the making its own way in the world.
The first lesson any child should, hard and ugly facts of life" away from the girl. She had made her learn is the lesson of "give-and- life easy in every respect and never take. You will make sacrifices for let her dream that one day a time it, that is quite right, it is your duty would would come when she would no to do so. longer have a mother to fetch and carry for her. She had deliberately
of the other hand. The warmth gives a wonderful lustre.
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that she had
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The mistake les in falling to way is not being kind to them; it
Some mothers delight in making
"I have always keen
Most conscientious parents labour realise that the main business of a being cruel. nice, pretty clothes. I have given set herself in the background as a under a sort of superalition that it is child is not Just to enjoy itself and up my own amusements, neglected creature of no importance, and given their duty to give all for their child- have a good time (though that is an encrifices for their children, but they my own friends for her sake. I have the child the idea that she and she ren and to exact nothing in return, I essential in reasonable moderation), should be sure that they are sacri always stood between her and alone, was the centre of the domes and for this dangerous folly their but to learn to be old. And to re- Acing themselves and not actually trouble; have never let her face the tie universe. And now she had reup- excuso Is that a child "is only young tard them in this by pampering and the child.
once.".
sheltering thent in every possible. ugly things in life. I have-sacrificed-ed-her-just reward.
Christine Verrier.
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