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Show Lovely Sheer Cottons Star In Summer Bride Picture By CIIERIE NICHOLAS ,S I ' y - vv -- "" fair. . . , i A. v Iff 1 -V , ! A, , wrl f x v 1 I '. , 'j - , 4 i -1 nPHERE'S no need to t ?fXXL 1 - quote imposing statis- jf " J 'J 3 tics to prove that there's a 3 1 1 f ' r N 1 big boom on in weddmgs. r s?t' ?t&- ' 1 All anyone has to do is I4, h "JStl 4 1 glance at the daily society CXj iV " " ' " I columns in the newspapers ( ""m, and count her invitations to w THERE'S no need to quote imposing statistics statis-tics to prove that there's a big boom on in weddings. All anyone has to do is glance at the daily society columns in the newspapers and count her invitations to know that weddings are making an all time record. Today's young couples, for the most part, believe that budget planning plan-ning is the better part of patriotism, and at the same time 1943 brides are more anxious than ever to look their loveliest on this day of days a picture for him to carry ever when he goes forth to war. The answer a wedding gown of one or other of the beguiling cottons that will have a matchless beauty all its own no matter how inexpensive it may be. Girls in cotton bridal gowns are saying say-ing "I do" more often than ever before in fashion history. What an enchanting picture they make, the organdies and nets, marquisettes, mar-quisettes, cotton laces and so on, that are being fashioned into wedding gowns so entrancing no bride could wish for anything prettier or more flattering. A dress of cotton lace and net with bodice of lace teamed with a billowy skirt made up of alternate al-ternate bands of lace and net, as shown to the right in the illustration, will make any bride look as if she had stepped out of the pages of a fairybook story. This model is perfectly charming, either in all white or an exquisitely delicate pastel (preferably pale pink). It is fashion news of no lit- tie importance, this matter of a delectable de-lectable tint for the wedding gown. The matching net headdress that accompanies this net-with-lace dress is adorable, and it is the last word in chic. The heart neckline and the bracelet sleeves add youthful accent. This dress will prove a perfect gem when it comes to functioning as a dinner gown on gala evenings after the ceremony. Best of all as exquisitely ex-quisitely fragile looking as it is, you'll find that it will come up smiling smil-ing after each laundering. Wedding marches and organdie brides will be playing a most charming charm-ing duet the whole summer through. A garden bride who doesn't want a train to trail in the dew does well to select a simple white organdie like the ankle-length gown pictured to the left. The very simplicity of this dress is its charm, with its wide ingenious sash and triple tucks around the hem. The leghorn hat makes the costume resemble a Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait. Often organdie is handled in a muchly beruffled manner, for the bride, since, as you know, ruffles and frills and ruchings of cotton sheers animate summery frocks in all sorts of delightful ways this season. A recent bride who was greatly admired ad-mired looked really beautiful in a beruffled organdie, youthfully styled, her headdress instead of the usual veil being a halo of self organdie arranged most artfully. As to other cottons for the wedding wed-ding dress, a formal point d'esprit gown with a train as long as the WPB allows, makes its wearer look indescribably lovely. In the young manner also, is an irresistible frosted frost-ed organdie witH a pinafore look, created by ruffles over the shoulder and forming a peplum flounce. A white organdie with ruffled train, sleeves, skirt panels and headdress achieves a costume that would make any wedding a memorable occasion. For the more mature bride, but just as picturesque and flattering, is a stunning wedding gown that has a fichu of the organdy with medallions medal-lions of lace appliqued on both skirt and waist. Most of these bridal gowns come with equally lovely bridesmaids' dresses in pastels that can carry on as summer evening gowns for the duration. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |