Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1919 — USE OF FRINGE ON A FROCK [ARTICLE]

USE OF FRINGE ON A FROCK

' : q ; zz r zk Charming Border Treatment Is Easily Produced, Affording Most Clever Arrangement It took some one of a decidedly unconventional turn of mind to put fringe on a frock and not use it fringewise, says a correspondent. The result was very decidedly to the good, and the means surprisingly simple. You see the effect was that of large fluffy silky shells, and they made the most charming border treatment ever. The fringe was treated this way: Lengths sufficiently long to make generous spirals were cut and applied s{4ral fashion with widely separated ‘•invisible’* stitches along the border of the fringe,, which, of course, Was perfectly plain, neither knotted nor twisted. After that each strand of the fringe was looped, or turned under itself and the end stitched securely to preserve the loop. Thus you see the effect was a soft spiral of loops. Chenille fringe would be delightful to work witt this way, and perhaps a blt easier than the more “stringy” kind. Nor is there any artistic reason for not using .two colors of fringe, delphine blue, for instance, and black, placed alternately;