Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-15
CHRISTMAS GIFTS,

Any number of pretty and useful l gifts can be made out of ribbon, and 1 this is the time to pick up your rrb bons-when winter is approaching, and l yards and yards of leftover summer l ribbons are being offered at bargain | prices, to make room for the incoming | holiday ribbons
 A chaing dish apron Is made of l sprigged white cotton net and pink | satin ribbon, and fetching and frtvo- ] lous apron it is, to be sure Just the 1 sort to tie over an evening froek when pretty woman sets to work to con coct a rarebit after the bridge game. Camisoles always suggest themselves first when very wide ribbon is under discussion. Anybody. can make a charming camisole out of ribbon. No fitting or special shaping is required; all one has to do is to run a ribbon | casing along one egde of the ribbon ard an ela astic casing along the other edge for the waistiine and then to suspend the gathered camisole from ! ribbon shoulder straps. Of course, the | more dainty trimming one adds to the 1 camisole, the more attractive it is as l a gift.
 1 These little garments are the gavest and most frivolous items in the femin- l inc wardrobe and so lavishly orna-
 mented are some of them that blouses of sheer. transparent stuff are made specially for wear over them.
 Sometimes a lace pattera has flowers with threads of the mesh forming center, and these threads can often be cut away, leaving a hole in the center kof the flower, without harming the lace at all. Then a ribbon may be run
 through the holes to draw up the lace.
 Another camisole is made of one wide and one narrow strip of flesh tint ed silk ribbon and band of shirred
 net is set in between the two ribbons,
 to give the camisole greater length.
 Unless your ribbon is very wide and 1 expensive, you will have to use lace or
 net in some such way to make the
 garment long enough to reach from
 bust to Waistline.
 Too short a samiSoie will not please
 the recipient of your gift; it will either have to be dropped too low at the top
 [and no woman of good taste likes this effect under thin hlouse} or it will miss meeting the skirt belt by an inch or two-always g. distressing effect if
 the blouse is transparent. l A pretty little sachet for the corset may be made of a ribbon flower with 1 streamer ends. Back of the flower Is
 tiny silk envelope with snap fast ener; and perfumed cotton is slipped inside the silk envelope. Another cor set sachet is a rather big bow of hand some satin ribbon. tied so that loops and ends lie very fiat across the top of the front steel of the corset. Two or three little chiffon roses decorate the center of the bow. and the long loops conceal long. fiat sachet at the back An apron seen recently is a gay lit tie affair, more for coquetry than tor real use; though it will keep scraps of lint, floss and yarn from sticking te
 the lap when it's wearer is doing fancy work. Three lengths of wide, pale blue satin ribbon make the three panels 5 which are set together with marrow l filet insertion. The rounded edge of the apron is hemmed in very marrow 5 hem and Q how ruff1e of narrow pale = blue satin ribbon is whipped to tht edge of the tiny hem.
 , The long ribbon. which makes tht 7 belt and strings is doubled over tn, top of the apron and featherstitchet 2 in place: and while the belt is rathe T narrow. the doubled ribbon unfnlds II 9 the bow and ends at the back in co h quettish effect.