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Show WIIATSHALLVrE WEAR? Some of the Fashions That Are Approved By the Elite at Home, and the Ultra Elite Abroad. FASHIONABLE WEDDING T0ILET3.' Description of the Dresses Designed For the Stanley-Tennant Wedding Eridesn aids Costumes. . Dresses designed for weddings always command a certain amount of interest, and this interest becomes general when the persons to be murried are as well known throughout the land as are Mr. Stanley and his bride. Naturally Miss Dorothy Tennant's gowns and bonnets werj quite a lamodo, and offer numerous suggestions to prospective brides. As a mere description conveys but a vague idea wi have attempted to make matters quite plain to our fair readers by illustrations. The train and bodice of tho wedding dress depicted wereof white poult do sole, the seams of which were sewn with pearls. Under sleeves, vest and tablier were in white satin embroidered in pearls. Clusters ot orange blossoms appeared at 4w MISS DOROTHY TENNANT'B BRIDAL DRESS, the side, and a double fillet of orange blossoms blos-soms was placed in tho hair. Miss Tennant's Ten-nant's veil of tulle wus fastened by the bridogroom's present, a diamond crescent, and the queen's brooch, set in diamonds, glittered about her throat. Her train was borne by a charming little page and two tiny maidens in satin costumes, after the period of Charles I. These costumes are represented in the Becond cut. The bridesmaids' dress was made with a white satin petticoat, with an. overskirt of white crepe de lisse. The page's costume was in white cloth and satin, being of tho cavalier pattern. His hat was of white felt, with long ostrich feathers. Extremosimpliclty distinguished the wedding bouquets. Tho bride's consisted con-sisted of roses, Capo jasmine, tuberoses, orango blossom, myrtle (in short, all tho flowers which have been sacred for centuries centu-ries to the bridal rites), veiled by asparagus forn, myrtle and orango foliage. The two little bridemaids, who wore graceful wreaths of Cape jasmine, carried posies of Madonna lilies and Cape jasmine. Mrs. Tennant's bouquet was quite a innsterly study in pink, inwhich round curly petaled "La France" roses hovered around sprays of "Princess Beatrice" sweet peas like a 1 Bight of butterOics. It is not often that a bridegroom shines as a leading light at his wedding, but as Mr. Stanley was a notuble exception it may be well to state that he was clad in the conventional costumo for day weddings, wed-dings, including a black frock coat, patent leather shoes, button hole bouquet and white kid gloves. Among the lute- fuds indulged in is the one that makes pink a favored color for floral ornamentation at weddings. The idea is that the pink flowers impart a becoming be-coming glow to the bride's pale whiteness. Tho floral bell has been dispensed with lately as being both troublesome and silly. MISS TKNNANT'S BRIDIMAID AN TAGS. At recent New York weddings bride-maids bride-maids have adopted the English style of wearing hats with their full dress toilets. Noon weddings are just now more favored than are evening weddings another fashion horrowed from our English cousins. Brider.:aids, as a rule, wear some article of jewelry presented by the bridegroom as a souvenir ot t he occasion. At the Stanley-Tennant Stanley-Tennant wedding the bridemaids' ornaments orna-ments were crystal heart shaped lockets surmounted by a true lovers' knot of tur-quois tur-quois and pearls. A Dress Approved by Lady Haberton. Lady Haberton has lent the light of her countenance to a new sort of dress which Benjamin, a London tailor, has just introduced. intro-duced. It is designed for tennis, boating, shooting and outdoor wear generally. It looks like any ordinary plain dress ontside. But inside the foundation is closed at tbe hem, forming a kind of divided skirt. This arrangement is to do away with the wearing wear-ing of bulky petticoats. Women anxious for dress reform will wear the divided skirt I aud dress combined. Lady Haberton and her followers are enchanted with this new notion. Echoes from the World of Fashion. Velvet sleeves and silk sleeves are worn with woolen dresses. Sleeves which have no reference either in texture or color to tho material of the gown will, let us hope, prove only a passing pass-ing mode. A word on jeweled trimmings. Crystal is colored aud cut to imitate precious stones and worked in net. This placed on a dress looks as if the dress was covered with jewelry. |