The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-06-17
Spanish Note in
Milady's Gowns

ern fashionable dressmaker and the
well-dressed woman. Great must be
| their establishment this spring at the
avalanche of orders that pour into
their offices daily.
Ribbon on Wraps and Dresses.
Ribbons are something to be reck-
oned with when one woman will wear
fifty or sixty yards of it on her SIM
pie black crepe de chine dress. At
the Ritz at luncheon hour on one OF
these balmy spring days just before
the exodus to the country, one may
see several hundred yards of black
ribbon In the dining room and cloak
room, for wraps are just as lavishly
adorned with it as dresses.
How long this craze for black
clothes will last is impossible to say.
The simple black dress is extremely
smart, but so much of this somber
hue is likely to pail in short time.
Not only will we become tired Of see
ing every woman walking about like
a smartly-dressed widow, but we will
feel the need of the cheer Of bright
colors in our clothes.
American women have accorded
considerable favor to the ribbon
trimmed French model gown of the
ever-present black crepe de chine.
The ribbon is MORE. Innumerable lit
tie tufts are caught to the bottom OF
the dress to form wide band.
Ribbons in vivacious Effects.
This frock is part Of very YER
satile costume, for both cape and
coat have been made to accompany
it. The cape is perfectly straight
falling from a shallow yoke with a
rather narrow standing collar, and
the bottom of the wrap is trimmed
exactly like the dress.
The coat is made like a chemise
dress. 1t fastens down the front
slightly to one side and is girdled with
a string belt which draws it in rather
snugly to the figure. 1t, too, has the
fantastic ribbon trimming at the bot
tom and also on the long. flowing
sleeves.
There are innumerable ways of ap-
plying ribbons, but space permits men
ton of only the unusual Ones All Of
the old-time methods are retained and
to them are added effects that are
unusual almost to the point of being
cratic. 1t would seem that to be
in keeping with their history-and
they have history-that ribbons
should trail, and way of permitting
them to run true to form, as It were,
is through the use Of fluted streamers
or ribbon panels with loosely pressed
pleats in accordion effect
This treatment is applied to a great
many evening dresses of the similar
type which, in contrast to the black
frocks, are of bright-colored crepe de
chine. The skirt Of such a frock may
carry many f1uted panels of faille rib
bon all hanging several inches below
the hem of the dress itself If the
waist has any trimming at all it may
take the form of wheels made of the
f1uted ribbon.
Bouquets of ribbon flowers are not
unusual, but there is rather a novel
way Of placing them over a tiny hol-
low wire frame to make a corsage
ornament from which fall many long
ribbon streamers Of various lengths.
These frames are like the shade of
small reading lamp and are covered
with tiny blossoms and buds compact
ly conventional, but of exquisite work
manship. The most beautiful hues
are introduced in these flowers. They
are placed at the waistline Of the
frock just as one would wear a cor
sage bouquet. The clusters Of rib
bons which fall from the bouquet are
of all lengths.