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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1906
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop presents a spring showcase spanning New York to Washington Paris. Easter buys only trigger a fraction of spring wardrobe as the real season launches Monday. Experts highlight abundant stock, refined styles, and welcoming service in this extensive exhibit.
Bridal gift list features marble pedestals busts bronze figures and electroliers as well as Royal Bonn Sevres and porcelain vases. fine silverware cut glass and chinaware appear alongside leather goods and gilt furniture suitable for furnishing a new home.
Correct Wedding Stationery. UR Engraving Department is splendidly equipped for executing promptly and in a most satisfactory manner. Orders for invitations engraved on modish paper in the latest forms. Also wedding announcements, at homes, and visiting cards. We are growing busier every day in this department. We suggest placing orders with as little delay as possible.
Fashion notes present spring and summer fabrics. Highlights include materials from Drench and English producers with elegant patterns, velings and canvases praised for ease of use. Voile, wool blends, checks, tweeds, gray suiting, and cream fabrics are showcased for current gowns and outfits.
A furnished dining room shows a table set with elegant gold-bordered china and red cut glass. The sideboard features new cut glass pieces and a china closet holds a quaint game set, chop and cake platters, salad bowls. The display illustrates how suitable presents from this stock look in a bride’s home and highlights heirloom quality Cat Glass and new Hime bowls.
A local ad showcases tall vases, small bowls, and Water Picture glass sets with plum decorated patterns. It highlightsJapanese ware including salad bowls cups and chocolate pots, plus new dinner set patterns and an oak rug collection framed by oriental motifs.
The new silk hosiery for Spring weddings features gauze and self crocheted lace ankles, shimmering silk in white, drawn work, and embroidered patterns. Embroidered flowers, wreaths, and bouquets on black brown and colored tights offer a wide color range. White slippers remain a bridesmaid favorite, with orange blossom embroideries and beaded designs. Also showcased are fluffy winter tulle rosettes for trimming bridal shoes.
The store offers brides prayer books bound in white hides with gold decoration. Each book contains the marriage certificate space and signatories for witnesses. Available at Casiners Office main floor 61 Street side, a deposit branch of Union Sayings Bank during business hours.
Mrs Edson Bradley hosts a luncheon today in honor of Mrs Bell as the Sixty Couple Cotillion looms at Rauscher’s tonight. Miss Maud Ely and Lieut Commander John H Gibbons will wed at St Thomas Church on Wednesday noon with Rev Herbert Ipman and Dr Earnest Smith officiating. Captains and naval officers head a long list of ushers. German envoy Hebbinghaus guests arrive April 23. Roosevelt yacht match plans discussed for Marblehead in September.
Washington churches celebrated Easter with extensive choral and instrumental music. Organists, soloists, and choirs filled services from dawn to midnight, featuring Masses by Gumprecht and other works, with numerous performers and large congregations across multiple parishes.
The Easter parade in Manhattan showcased green gowns, long kid gloves, and short sleeves as the season’s standout fashion. Roses dominated millinery, with Fifth Avenue crowds applauding the color spectacle and elaborate outfits despite morning drizzle.
Commander John H Gibbons US Navy attache arrives in New York from London with plans to wed Miss Maud Ingersoll Ely after a brief leave. Also aboard the Umbra are two other brides and a groom bound for marriages in the Cambridge and New Castle circles, with clergy and officials arranging ceremonies aboard and ashore.
Ruth Hale notes a crowded Connecticut Avenue turnout for the Easter gown and bonnet parade despite threatening rain. Women flaunted gray Quaker and blue pink outfits while husbands endured the cost and optimism of spring fashion. As the sun set the long promenade from Dupont Circle to Farragut Square closed with the crowd undiminished.
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