Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — WOMAN'S WAYS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN'S WAYS.

USES FOR RIBBONS

HERE FASHION HAS DRAWN THE LINE TIGHTLY. Each Season Demands Changes, the Majority of Which Are Easily Accomplished—Color Scheme Always to Be Remembered. It might seem at first thought that the correct use of ribbon is one of the easiest things In life, but each season ushers In Its own especial use of the different widths. If not of particular kinds and qualities, all of which block the way to success through past experience. To say that the sash Is to be worn Is. not to mean necessarily the 12-lnch ribbon that meant “sash” a few years ago; and to proclaim the hat with the ribbon bow Is not to tie any sort of a little bow and believe one’s self walking the rope of fashion. Fashion draws her rope tightly, and makes little allowance for deviations from its difficult way. The ribbon as a sash is admitted when in its softest form it hangs in two long slim ends, very much.as if it were bias liberty. To accomplish this effect the ends are tied sometimes into knots, with end, and again into actual bows, which weight them into a graceful fall. Ribbon may also be folded successfully into the sash for the waist girdle, when, for this use, also, it is of a liberty quality. The hat bow of the season demands breadth of ribbon and crispness of quality. Ribbon has been used successfully as a tunic edge for the marquisette and chiffon drapery of the figured foulard gown, and it is the color touch on many a pretty garden party frock. Here, if anywhere, is ribbon at its best. The buttonholed slot provides successful openings for the slipping in and out of folded wide ribbons and of two-inch ribbon velvets. These are used In gayest colors on the handsome white or ecru frock and on the bowersprigged or embroidered mull and the dotted swlss. Black or lavender ribbons slipped into the natural eyelet spaces in black and white embroidered robes are an unusual treatment of the summer frock for those who wear light mourning. Always successful as summer neckties are the medium widths of soft ribbon, whether tied in a bow or knotted Into a four-ln-hand. Color enters largely Into the successful use of ribbon, and not alone are the brightest tones called into requisition tn the furbishing of hat and gown. The French are fond of a certain deep prune ribbon on black hats, and the combination is not far from ravishing so unusual is it Black ribbon on the dark blue hat or on the gray hat is as successful as certain combinations of black moire ribbon with burnt straw'and with ecru raffia fabric Changeable ribbons, last of all, because they are the newest and also for reasons of convenience. Straws are not easy to match and neither are mat-rials, and the two-toned ribbon is frequently the only possible hat trimming that will shade harmoniously into both. -••-*■• _■<=