Quilted Satin Ribbon and Lace.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 29 July 1908, Page 67

Quilted Satin Ribbon and Lace.

In Paris the ruffle holds undisputed Sway at the present moment, the most popular of these being designed of “quillings” of thick, stiff satin ribbon placed upright round the throat in three rows of graduated widths, and divided from the triple frills at the base of the ruffle by a stiffened band covered with folds of the same ribbon caught with a huge chou on one side. These ribbon ruffles will be immensely popular for some time to come; soft Nattier and plumbago ehades of blue being first in favour, and being rivalled very Closely by lovely shades of

burnished copper, old gold, and cherry. Some of the ruffles in question show a charming combination of tints, a pale biscuit-coloured satin example being supplemented at the edges with narrow, graduated lines of lily-leaf green, while all of them arc designed to stand up very high round the throat, to give the correct Elizabethian effect, the face being encircled and framed in its frills like the bouquet of a mid-nineteenth century belle framed in its paper holder. The ribbon in countless instances is abandoned in favour of gauffered lace, tinted to a soft old ivory tone with a rope of soft ribbon or velvet dividing the flounces. Even the little ruffle of tulle or lisse introduced as a finish to the gowns are increasing in size every cyiy, the coutureiere being no longer content to add a tiny unassertive box-pleated frill to the necks of her creations. The. latest exaggeration which has made its appearance ■in this connection consists of a couple of litle gauffered frills of ribbon sandwiched between two of lace. © © ©