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SPRING FASHIONS at 

 is CALL FOR COLORS 



Wedding bouquets this season arc a riot of color, due perhaps to the 

 expectation of a shortage of valley, and this artistic New York retailer says 

 decorations and designs all show the break from precedent in the matter of 

 color combinations. 



PRING weddings are just 

 like spring itself: They 

 always come again, but 

 every year, the same as 

 April weather, they change 

 style, bring different 

 dresses and different flow- 

 ers. Only the bridegrooms 



have always the same 



thoughts about the brides, 

 but the brides have not the same 

 thoughts about flowers and other things 

 necessary for the wedding ceremony. It 

 is quite wonderful what weddings do to 

 flowers. 



There was a scarcity of the little 

 bulblets which give us the real bridal 

 flower, the lily of the valley, but that 

 does not harm. There are so many 

 other pretty, delicate flowers for bridal 

 bouquets and for the different brides- 

 maids that we do not miss lily of the 

 valley exactly. 



Bouquets changed 

 alto|[ether this year. 

 Bridal bouquets 

 made out of lily of 

 the valley only, or 

 with the stately 

 white orchids, are 

 not seen so much as 

 they used to be. 



New Ideas. 



We have now 

 bouquets out of all 

 kinds of spring 

 blossoms. In one 

 bouquet alone you 

 can see combined, 

 just like a happy 

 family, flowers like 

 white pansies, white 

 Roman hyacinths, 

 creamy white peach 

 blossoms or double 

 Japanese cherries, 

 white primroses, 

 lilac and many 

 others. 



While some of the 

 brides carry the 

 regular shower, 

 clinging over the 

 arm and f a 11 i n g 

 down over the gown, 

 you see some of the 

 tall, slim brides 

 carrying a bouquet 

 spray-like, falling 

 backwards, almost 

 forming a part of 

 the body. Brides, 

 flowers and dress 

 seem to be one har- 



By MAX SOILING 



nionious whole and the flowers for this 

 combination are just the same as used 

 for almost any other bouquet. 



There is a spray of lilies, there are 

 two or three gardenias, there is a bunch 

 of white violets, a few sprigs of lilac, 

 dainty A'arcissus poeticus, white baby 

 primroses, delicate as baby's breath. 

 Mixed up among themselves, they still 

 harmonize, one improving the other, 

 and still not one taking the character 

 of its neighbor. 



Bouquets of Bright Blossoms. 



Bridesmaids' bouquets, something en- 

 tirely new, you find made out of spring 

 blossoms of almost every conceivable 

 color. The artist does not consider 

 strictly matched colors for his bouquets. 

 He can take anything in his hands and 



Church Wedding Decoration with Standard Roses and Hydrangeas. 



it seems as if every flower would find 

 its own way to the other flowers, and 

 no matter what colors, they all, when 

 put together, have one tone, the tone 

 of harmony and happiness, and they fit 

 into the decorations just as well. 



The decorations are not any more as 

 they used to be — just a bower and a lot 

 of palms with a heavy, set background; 

 ribbons drawn along the aisle, a big 

 bunch of Easter lilies on each aisle 

 post or each pew, and a fancy tree-form 

 shape above the aisle, just like an arbor 

 behind our grandfather's farmhouse. 



No, you will find it entirely different. 

 The church is free and clear. Nothing 

 obstructs our view. From the farthest 

 corner we can see clear, over the whole 

 festive place. A delicate curtain of 

 green is falling from the walls. Two 

 large candelabra with wax lights on 

 each side of the candelabra; roses 

 fastened just as if climbing up; and, 

 instead of the 

 bower, two nice, 

 high, standard 

 trees of beautiful 

 tea roses just to set 

 off the curtain of 

 green. 



White Brides! 



The bride in her 

 white gown has no 

 more white back- 

 ground such as they 

 used to make, so 

 that you could not 

 tell in former time 

 if the bride in her 

 white gown was a 

 part of the white 

 background of lily 

 of the valley, 

 white roses or what- 

 ever white flowers 

 had been used and 

 which you see less 

 and less every- 

 where. Just the 

 same as we use for 

 trimming gowns, a 

 contrast; just the 

 same as we try to 

 find a harmonizing 

 effect in decorating 

 our homes, just the 

 same we should trv 

 to give the bride, 

 in her white dress, 

 a color which not 

 only will be pleas 

 ing to the eye, but 

 which also takes 

 away the almost 



