The Archive · 1896

PRINCESS MAUD'S TROUSSEAU

This reminds me to tell your lady readers an item or two about her wedding outfit. and. practicality. Dresses made with two It is characterised by the utmost simplicity bodices each, a high one and a low one, for luncheon as well as for evening wear, are features of the young Princess Maud's costumes. The couple will be comparatively poor, having little beyond the allowance of the Prince of Wales on which to start their new life. Therefore the arrangements for dresses are simple though tasteful. One pretty dress—for Thad a peep at the collection—is a fawn silk skirt. The high bodice is of assort of Dolly Vardon silk, fawn and pink, shot with posies of pink flowers. The low bodice is of the same shade as the skirt, pale fawn, with yellowish lace shoulder berthes. Stockings and shoes and gloves in pale fawn make up this simple lemi-trained dress, suitable either for a quiet home dinner or a mid-day meal. rinees Maud is accomplished in many homely ways. She makes good butter, spending happy hours in her neat little dairy at Sandringham. She uses a typewriter with more than average ability, and she is as busy as a bee all day long, entering into all she doos with zest, whether amusement or serious work be the object. The Prince and Princess of Wales believe that occupation is the secret of true happiness' and they have brought up their children on this wise plan.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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