Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — VELVET RIBBON GARNITURE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VELVET RIBBON GARNITURE.

A Very Artistic Application of It Is Hero Shown. Velvet ribbon will continue to be a favorite garniture for woolens, as it will also for interior toilets, such as foulards and other thin silks. In some cases it is used only as garniture for the corsage, outlining the arm-holes, and starting from the back and passing around the figure under the arms and crossing in front, where it is held in place by an old silver buckle. Then again it is applied with a lavish hand, as shown in the illustration, producing

beautiful effects provided there be a. complete harmony or artistic contrast between its color and the material upon which it is applied. Very artistic application of velvet ribbon as garniture, recently seen, was a halfmourning dress for a young person—a white batiste with black figures, made up with a deep flounce headed by black velvet ribbon, which also served as trimming, brace style, having a bow at the waist and long ends, and a bow on each shoulder. The cuffs were likewise of the ribbon, and at the elbow the bouffant sleeves had bands of the velvet ribbon.