THE WORLD OF FASHION

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9, 3 March 1906, Page 62

THE WORLD OF FASHION

(By

MARGUERITE.)

THE RAGE FOR RIBBONS. There is, 1 must tell you, a perfect craze for ribbons of every sort and colour. Long, floating sashes of wide, soft riblwm. in pretty Pompadour or Watteau designs, adorn our filmy' muslin frocks; while ruches aml rosettes, loops and l>ows of r'bbon, appear here, there and everywhere. Very lovely, too, are these new ribbons, some in softly shot tones of rose and green, blue and -ilver, and mauve

and white, and others in exqu site blends of three and even four delicate pale nuances, so deftly arranged as to give an opalescent effect to the ribbon. 1 would venture to suggest to the prudent bar-gain-hunter that the summer sales will afford many opportunities for purchasing cheaply odd lengths of the: e lovely ribbons. which can lie used most effectively later on for trimming evening frocks and smart blouses. The girdle foundation has transformed the old-fashioned sash into an accessoiy which gives length and good lines to the

figure. T e old objection to a sash because it rumpled into a shapeless string around the waist has been compl tely overcome by the introduction of shaped and stiffened foundations of crinoline. Over this the sash ribbon of the hour is laid in folds or gaugings, defined here and there by knots, rosettes or gay buttons.

What looks to be a sasii round the waist seldom nowadays fastens or ties in the back. More generally the girdle closes in the front, the fastening being hidden by double gaugings or rosettes. Many

fascinating n ethods are employ <1 for attaching the sash proper to the back of this hig.i, well-shaped girdle. Somet'mes the girdle is cut down in the back unt : l it is almost V-shaped, and to this is attached a splash'ng knot and two long ends. A second method shows the back of the girdle outlined by two flat bows, with double ends running up and down, and held at the top and bottom ot the girdle with double kno s while the end; of the sash proper appear as though doming out from beneath the two lower loops.