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Pre-sewn trim could be purchased at the store and then sewn on to the dreseses. It was an easy of providing some style to very plain dresses. We are not sure what the term for this trim is. Hopefully home sewers will be able to help us here. This trim camec in many different forms. This could be add to introduce colored accents, often in contasting colors. Unfortuntely the black and white photography of the day makes it impossible to know what colors were used. This trim was usually straight. We note zig-zag and diagonal trim being used in the 1870s. It could be used at on near the neckline, collar, pockets, hem or other areas of the dress.
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