Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1912 — BRAIDED TOUCH FOR GOWN [ARTICLE]

BRAIDED TOUCH FOR GOWN

Ingenious Girl Produces an Original and Unique Effect In Her Afternoon Gown. i *. Seeing in the shops the tiny narrow bands of folded' black satin, with their long silken or heavily beaded tassels, used as a neck finish, a cerorlglnallty. to her new afternoon gown by making, to go with It, a tie and girdle of braided folds of black satin. , ' The little tie was of the usual three strand braiding, the satin strips being very small and carefully blfndstitched along the entire length, It. was long enough to go around the neck and hang almost to the waist, the ends being worked into a clever little “rosette,” with a.jet beaded center. Another tiny medallion covered the black motel “snap fastener” which held the tie together at the base of the collar in front. For the girdle slightly wider strips ofsatln were prepared, and she rubbed up her memory of lessons taken in raffia braiding for baskets. The braid, when finished, was more than an inch wide, was fastened at one side under a medallion similar to but larger than the ones used for the tie, and the ends hung neaflytO the edge of the drees skirt, being also finished with rosettes, from which hung black silk tassels.