Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — Girdles of Flowers Popular. [ARTICLE]

Girdles of Flowers Popular.

Girdles of flowers are coming into popularity. Isabel May of New York and Washington, who is tall, dark and slender, wore at a recent ball a dress of pale yellow filet net over yellow satin, and her belt was a double row of brilliant scarlet poppies in soft silk, with a tiny fringe of leaves. Belts of rosebuds with white gowns have made their appearance In London in bridesmaids’ pageants, and cow, in addition to the belt, certain glrlß have their dancing skirts adorned two inches or so above the hem with alternate clusters of rosebp&s and) leaves. They serve the double pur pose of adornment and of keeping diaphanous gowns in decorous trim during waltzes.