HOME-MADE ROSES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2628, 9 October 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

HOME-MADE ROSES.

Lots of fascinating little touches are being introduced into the millinery of the moment, and the neckwear, and dainty additions to a smart' woman’s toilot in the way of pretty belts and shoes, etc., are this year more popular than ever. A pretty millinery notion, which is being extensively used this summer takes the form of little roses made of dull gold or silver tissue or tinsel ribbon. These come well within the scope of the home milliner who is natty with her fingers. Each petal is made of tlie ribbon or tissue, gathered up at the waist, whilst the centre of the flower is of vieux rose or . vieux

o soft satin, folded on the cross, amt a few petals of the satin can be Introduced with considerable effect. The leaves are made of the metal tissue, and iri the case of hat-trimming are sewn down flat on to the velvet which surrounds the crown of the hat. Flowers made in this way are extremely pretty for hair ornaments.

Dainty fingers can also fashion gathered roses out of muslin, which are decidedly fetching on a summer hat. One of the smartest millinery houses in '‘Wellington showed a hat trimmed with these roses. It was expressed in coarse brown straw with three or four pale yellow muslin roses thrown loosely on the brim, while sprays of artificial green rose-leaves supplied the necessary foliage.