Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1911 — Ribbon Designs [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ribbon Designs

WE seem to be developing more and more, a fancy for flower forms made of ribbon, for all occasions where ribbon is an accessory of decoration. We may have borrowed the original idea from the French, but America boasts the most original and prolific designer of ribbon garnitures. Ora Lue, of New York, has recently discovered for the hostesses off that opulent city, a new world in the possibilities of ribbons and for 'decorative purposes. Dinner tables and drawing rooms of the coming season promise to blossom with unfading flower forms that charm both by their beauty and ingenuity. These forms, used in conjunction with asparagus ferns, smilax and other lasting foliage, make the hostess think twice, when choosing decorations for any social function. The same ribbon serves for many occasions and forms and it is said even its color may be changed. Four designs are given here to be used' at a June wedding where the

color scheme is white and green. The rosette, made of white messaline, is shown mounted with smilax and asparagus fern. The effect is delightful. Narrow ribbons are used as well as wide ones and innumerable graceful forms seem to lie asleep in the brain of this ingenious man. Let a whisper reach them that they are needed and they rush to his fingertips. Many- professional women, milliners and others, are taking up this work of ribbon for decoration and it may prove a new profitable accomplishment for them. Ribbons will not supplant natural flowers entirely, but they will bring about a new order of things. Fewer blossoms will be used and greater effectiveness given to those that so appear. We shall be spared the little hurt that lurks in the drooping fading flower because those that are used will be placed in vases while ribbons and foliage will make a marvelous background for them.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.