Pulling her hair into a pony tail, she secured it with a blue ribbon.
Hanging from a light blue ribbon it had the King's head on the obverse while the reverse bore the words " Militia.
He was generally in evening dress - black pantaloons (tight) and a white waistcoat, with Blue Ribbon and Garter.
Stranger and more exotic species in the country include neon-coloured blue ribbon eel, pufferfish and boxfish and leaf scorpionfish.
It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well.