Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1910 — RAFFIA TRIMMING THE VOGUE [ARTICLE]

RAFFIA TRIMMING THE VOGUE

Gives Extremely Effective Touch to Many of the Season's Styles in Millinery. Many of the new hats in the looser weaves of straw we being trimmed very effectively in- colored raffia and velvet flowers, the raffia being covered with net of the same shade and arranged like a scarf. Raffia comes in nearly 25 shades, and where an unusual color must be matched, the white or natural colored can often be dyed to the exact tint One girl tried for days to stain exactly a rather bright blue raffia, and after falling with all sorts of paints and dyes succeeded by dipping the natural-colored grass into ordinary washing blue. With the help of raffia and net very modish hats, indeed, can be trimmed entirely at home, for even the velvet flowers can be made with practise by the amateur. Often the raffia and net will match the straw of the hat, with the flowers in another shade or in black or white. The variations are endless, and all are pretty.,