Show an odd bridal costume dr john G paton pat on missionary to the south sea islands describes the dress of a native bride on her first appearance at church after the cerci mony perhaps those who follow the fashions will like to make a note of the various garments for future reference though hardly for imitation her bridal gown was a mans drab colored great coat put on above her native grass skirts and sweeping down to her heels buttoned tight over this she had hung on a vest and above that again most amazing of all sho had donned a pair of mens trousers drying the body oer her head and leaving a leg dangling gracefully over each of her shoulders and dreaming down her back fastened to one shoulder was a red shirt and to the other a striped one waving about wings as she sailed along about her head a red shirt ahad bean twisted like a turban and her notions of art demanded that a sleeve thereof should hang aloft over each of lier ears she seemed to be a moving monster loaded with a mass of rags the day was exceed angly hot and perspiration poured over her face in streams tier lius band at me and then at her as if to say you never saw in all your white world a bride so grandly dressed youths |