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Show II J ftifi 1 3y HELEN FJSLCO mw I I Best Season for a I Wedding Is Autumn n . . if ' II ' Decorations for October Nuptial Festivities Fore-j Fore-j - runners of the Coming Winter's Styles - in Trousseaux of Fashionable Brides ' 'i f HE October ' wedding in tho opln-i opln-i l n Ion of many persona Is tho most j picturesque wedding of the year. $ Juno is apt to bo unpleasantly f warm and the possibility of a show-I show-I ery day in April always casts a chill J? of apprehension over the participants ft In the Easter weddings. May is of i?1 course under a ban as a wedding month, i placed there by world-old superstition and all other months except when an ' early Easter ushers In March wed- i 'dings arc more or less unfashionable. "Society" docs not marry in Lent, as ' a rule, at least In New York whero those persons who set the fashion aro mostly very "high" church a -nitty clergyman called this glided section of tho community "Papists and Aplsts." For the October wedding yellow is the favorite color for decorations and costumes, and chrysanthemums aro the favorite flower. A girl of Lenox's fashionable set, who la to bo married this month, Is to have a country wedding wed-ding of novel beauty. The spacious, oak panelled hall of her father's big villa a red brick pile in an encircling ring of green hills Is to bo decorated with red and gold autumn Jcaves, The white and gold drawing room, with Its walls of 3ea greon" brocade, Is to be garlanded with white chrysanthemums. chry-santhemums. The dining loom Is to be a mass of golden rod. Many leaves Wi of tho copper beeches aro to be used j i. in the decorative scheme leaves of it a beautiful bronze tone flushed with Z A crimson. Tho gold and scarlet of the " 3 maples- - will -also bo mingled with ' '$ white asters In tall vases of blue and i. white porcelain on the stair-case land-flings land-flings andin tho corners of library and r other somberly furnished apartments. t'i1 The costumes of tho bride and her 1 r attendants aro illustrated on this page ; to-day. The bride's robe is. of ivory satin ! i with a graceful fichu of lace, a lace a chemisette and a tunic skirt. m The maid of honor will wear a charming frock. Empire stylo, of yellow yel-low patln with a flchu of plessc mouB-Iseline mouB-Iseline embroidered and edged with ruchettes Tho skirt has bands of plesse moussellne edged with ruchettes, ruch-ettes, and a big satin head covering with chiffon with a big yellow roso as trimming. The bridesmaids will wear whit Tr-arnulsette over yellow mcssallno. The bodices have epaulets of lace. The celntures are of liberty silk with dangling ends. The tunics aro trimmed at the sldo with ribbon roses Jf K The bridesmaids will carry sheaf I bouquets of yellow chrysanthemums $ v The maid of honor will carry a basket $ j of white chrysanthemums and autumn f , leaves. S An evening gown In tho trous-I trous-I Beau of this child of fortune, tho I daughter of a man who is a doting J father as well as a millionaire, and the 1 t bride of ono of tho great "catches" i of New York's "4O0r" is shown in tho Illustrations, and Its simplicity 13 In-i In-i L tercsting when ono considers that tho I if" trousseau of this October bride cost a I sum that would mako the average J bride gasp with something liko envl-5 envl-5 ous astonishment. I This graceful, artistic frock is of pal-y pal-y -1 est yellow chiffon over soft satin of f the same tint. It has a plastron or J 1 yolce delicately embroidered In palest a f pink coral beads, and tho triple tunic which falls in points is edged with 2 J rale pink coral embroidery. The slm- plesleevo Is worthy of attention, If The novol golng-away gown of this j 5 brido is characteristically smart and -f. unusual. It Is of blue cloth In a 13 rather brilliant shade The little boll bo-ll lero effect Is new and promises to be ', vt-ry popular this winter. It ban .V- strappcdjjtab3 at the high waist lino In ront.'The cross-over Is edged with dull gold embroidery. Tho chemisette chem-isette is of gold and black embroidery. embroi-dery. The jaunty hat Js a forerunner of tho winter styles. It is of smooth silk beaver turned up back and front i Mm mMi Uni mm Wfflfi lllmW with a Napoleonic suggestion In shape It has a. soft swathing of beige panno around ' the crown beige, you know. Is that exquisitely soft, creamy brown that used to bo called cafe-au-lalt. Tho lace veil Is a smart touch veiy bad for one's sight, but most enhancing enhanc-ing to the complexion. Even for the autumn wedding many bridal robes aro being made of thin stuffs, soft and diaphanous, such as moussellne, chiffon and silk marquisette. mar-quisette. These airy fabrics are more becoming to tho youthful brido thai! the stiff formality of satin or brocade They are also more useful if It I3 desired de-sired to wear the bridal gown on other occasions, and the average brido of to-day Is Tar too practlcul to put her wedding gown away ln lavender and tissue paper to await tho wedding of her daughter. Tho wedding gown of soft material mw havo a long career as a handsome dinner or evening even-ing gown, whereas tho Impressively rich robe of brocade or heavy satin Is suitable for few of tho occasions which taken Mrs. Newlywod into society. The gown of soft satin or crcpo do chine (ln any of Its versions crepe do Paris, crepe Ninon, crepe Moicte, etc.). with a tunic of lace or silver or pearl embroidery of a not loo elaborate character will make 0 charming evening even-ing gown for the bride and save her a good round sum The old fashioned wedding gown with its high n-ck was. of course, impossible for any other occasions', and the brido who wished to make uso of It later cither had to have a low-necked bodice made to v-ar with the trained skjrt or hat tho wedding bodice remodelled. To-day. with the collarlcss necks and lace yokes, the wedding robe needs absolutely abso-lutely no change. Even the long train presents no great dlflicultios, as the-very the-very long train is usually of thr "court" persuasion, Is fastened to the sho'uldors and can bo detached in a second just as If It wcro a cloak or cape. The wcddliv veil of tho moment Is seldom arrayed on tho head ln a scrle; of stiff pleats Into a coronet effect. The bride who permits this Is hopelessly hope-lessly demodee. The veil bhould be arranged over, the hair cap fashion, tho part that framr-o the face edged with pearl trimming or small white flowers or a grccii myrtle wreath. Uiilcbs the brido is a beauty I of the picturesque.' aesthetic, typo her hair 3hould be arranged soft and full around the face otherwise the cap j effect 13 apt to be. trying. Tho part I of the veil that falls oyer the faco Is a separate piece of tullo or lace, af- ! fixed beneath tho edge of '.ho cap with i a couple of pins that tho maid of 1 honor can remove in a second after the ceremony. Tho Dutch cap of laco with a posy of orange buds at either side, where tho gold ornaments of tho little Holland Hol-land girl Is usually proudly displayed, has enjoyed soma favor of late ln New Ydrk, and at a recent wedding at Now-port Now-port the bride's plain tulle veil was caught up in a soft knot at olthcr side of the head and fastened with two splendid circles of diamonds. Tho effect was decidedly novel and very pretty For the bride who wishes to bo married mar-ried ln tho old consrrvatlvo way in a collar that comes up to her cars and yot would like to mako uso of that costly wedding gown again, Is the surplice sur-plice bodice with a yoko and collar of lace that Is easily converted Into a decollete or seml-decollcto gown. The bridesmaid.'' of the season ar charming as French water-colors. They have been compared to fancy dress ball3 and choruses in comic opera and other frivolous things, but the fact remains re-mains that they havo never been so dainty and so decorative as they aro lo-day with their short skirts and hlgh-waisted hlgh-waisted bodices, their semi-low necks, their short sleeves and their quaint caps of lace or poko bonnets trimmed with plumes and flowers. A delicious sextette of girls accompanied accom-panied the brido at a very smart New York wedding tho other day. They wore short, high-wnlsted frocks of an odd shado of grey blue messallne made with tunics of cloud-groy, chiffon chif-fon a grey with a faint rose tinge. Tho necks were cut Just a bit low oh, Juol a wee bit and wero drawn up with tuckers of silver not and fastened In front with threo tiny pale pink satin roses. Tho celntures wcro of folded pink satin ribbon (a rather deep and yet soft pink, like that of a June rose), and the knot of tho ribbon whore a bow might have been expected was finished by a posy of the pink Gatln rose buds. Tho elbow sleeves of satin and cjilffon were finished with a quaint ruchlng of tho chiffon with a wco posy of tho roses at ono sldo of tho arm. Groy silk mittens without Angers were worn and grey satin pumps with bluo 3llk stockings of tho exact shado of tho frocks. These quaint maldons woro . poko bonnets of bluo chip with three soft grey plumes affixed to one side toward the back Tho brims of these bonnets were faced with cloud groy mallnes and nestling against tho grey softness wore half -vs rcaths of shaded pink satin posies. They carried bouquets of pink roses and forget-me-nots, arrayed In stiff bouquets and encircled by white paper, tho stems tied with grey, blue and rose ribbons the kind of stiff bouquet that the old-time beau was wont to send to his adored Angel ine on St. Valentine's day. At another wedding the maids of the bride arc to wear grey crepo do chlno with deep sailor collars of roso silk and groy stockings and slippers, and Dutch bonnets of groy straw with roses all around the edge. It Is a fashion now to have tho maid of honor's costume of tho same huo and stylo as thoso of tho bridesmaid's, but to crown her with a wreath, a cap or some other head dress distinctly different from thoso worn by tho maids. For Instance, at a. recent wedding the mald3 woro largo hats of pink chip flaunting with feathers, and tho maid of honor wore a bonnet of roso chip with a panacho of short wlllowcd tips. The autumn trousseau la. interesting, as It includes such rich and" permanent' things as furs and lovely rest gowns of velvet and other luxuries lhat tho summer brido does not usually7 havo ln her wardrobo trunks when sho leaves thf parental roof tree. iiMiitfil!iiilAll Tho matinees and lounge robes of tho moment follow the lines of the gowns for more formal occasions by being picturesque and artistic In tono and style. Long trailing robes of glistening glisten-ing brocades aro fashioned into "Wat-teau "Wat-teau tea gowns, although they aro not called tea gowns ln these days, with under dresses of laco or chiffon over white or colored silk. These are tho things that tho hard-worked woman of smart society dons when she seizes a breathing spell between her rows of afternoon calls and tho hour to dress for dlnnor. One Now York woman who has a white and gold drawing room hung with priceless old tapcstrlos in lovely faded tones of grey-blues and browny-grcens has a fad for 6 o'clock gowns of yellow, and ono of these Is of soft primrose tinted crepo mado Bra-plro Bra-plro fashion, with a squaro yoko of white lace Tho high celnturo is of black velvet and my Lady Dainty always al-ways manages to havo a yellow roso or come other golden blossom to thrust Into tho black velvet knot with which It fastens. Llngerlo for tho brido Is daintier thnn ever and less cumbersome. Combinations Com-binations of silk, splderwcb fine, warm, strong, light, soft and-yet. skintight, have token the place of tho old frilly and fussy (and fattening) muBlln and laco garments. Over thoso maillots, as tho Parlslenne calls them, aro worn |