How to wear the Sash or Rosette

Three styles of wearing the sash noted by Thomas Innes, Lord Lyon, 1961:

• Sash across right shoulder, the long end taken under the other arm and back over the shoulder again where it is brooched, the ends hanging freely front and. The style seems to date from Victorian times.
• Sash fixed at right shoulder, about midway along, the ends taken one forward and one back and then tied to each other at the waist on the other side, from where the short ends hang freely.
• Style for a wider sash (18" or more wide and about 2 yards long.) Gathered in to a brooch on a shoulder: the top, possibly rather longer, end hangs freely from the shoulder at the back and the lower one is draped slightly as it is taken across the back and is then fixed all the way across the back waist, with nothing but the fringe hanging below the waist from this end of the sash. [The Sash, by Jennifer A. Shaw. RSCDS Bulletin No. 71]

How to fold a Sash

To make a rosette, e.g., for the third style listed above, lay the sash out to its full length, and fold it in half. Fold the folded end down 6 or 7 inches and wind a rubber band tightly around the middle (fig. 1).

Spread it into a rosette (fig. 2)  

and fasten the edges of the half circles together with invisible pins at A and B. Fasten a large brooch in the center of the rosette. Now you're ready to pin the sash to your dress. Using a large safety pin, pin the rosette to the shoulder of your dress from underneath, with the ends of the sash floating down your back. Now ask a friend to help you. Moving the top layer of the sash out of the way, ask your friend to pin the closest edge of the sash to the right side of your dress at the waist with a medium safety pin, so it doesn't show. That's it.