Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — Millinery Wrinkles. [ARTICLE]

Millinery Wrinkles.

When a separate loop of wire is inserted in a hat bow it often has an extremely annoying habit of asserting its presence by poking out A stitch is not always advisable, aa it may spoil the look of the bow. Here is quite a good dodge when dealing with piece silk. The loops are made the required width from a strip cut on the straight The selvedge, is one side and the other is hemmed. Into the hem a round millinery wire is pushed before making up the loop and Is gives ths bow a smart upstanding appearance, keeping it exact ly in the required position. Bows wired in this, way are most valuable when motor veils are worn, as they come up smiling after the crushing inevitably sustained. Though you might not think it, the bow looks smarter if the side that is hemmed (what one naturally would call “the wrong side”) la used for tbe front It looks like a strapping slipped' and the wire acts aa a kind of piping,.