Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — THE BOUDOIR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BOUDOIR

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VOGUE OF HANDBAG INDISPENSABLE SINCE POCKETB WENT OUT OF FASHION. Girl With True Sense of Value of Detail in Dress Will Have Bag to Match Each Gown. Pockets In women’s dresses went out of fashion so many years ago that we are really beginning to forget that there ever were such things, and to carry one’s belongings, purse, handkerchief, etc., in a handbag has almost become second nature. The shape and size of these bags change from year to year, and their infinite variety is only equaled by their number, for the girl who has a true sense of "the immense

value of detail in dress will have a bag to match each separate gown. And it is just in this way that the girl with clever fingers can make herself Innumerable pretty and dainty bags at very small cost. Thereby, too, she may save uncounted shillings, the price of buying the bags in a shop. Of course, for morning use, to carry when out shopping in a coat and skirt, the bag must be of leather. This at first seems an Insuperable obstacle from the homeworker’s point of view, and it is true that the big leather bags with square gilt mounts, which have been so much seen of late, must be bought readymade, but there are other designs which are every whit as useful. Lengths of soft suede are nowadays to

be bought in every Imaginable shade of color, and these are not difficult to make into bags of the shape that is known by the name of “Dorothy.” Cut a strip of suede, the width of the bag and twice the length or depth, and with further strips, one-eighth of an inch in width, join it up the sides, over-sewing it through tiny slits cut for the purpose with a sharp penknife. More slits are made round the top a couple of Inches from the edge, and through these an inch-wide piece of ribbon or strip of suede is passed to draw it up and carry it by, and the bottom may be finished off 1 with a leather fringe. For afternoon use beaded or velvet bags are exceedingly fashionable, and these may quite well be home-made. Gilt mounts may be bought for very little, and sometimes beautiful old silver mounts, are to be picked up very cheaply in curiosity shops, these latter, of course, being more suitable for a velvet bag.' Beaded bags are made of fine canvas, and may be worked in any cross-stitch design, flower wreaths, such as our grandmothers worked in Berlin wools, being very popular. The work la done with strong, light-col-ored thread, one bead to each square of canvas, and the bag lined with silk to match, whilst a fringe of loops of the different colored beads will be found to make a pretty and effective finish.

Beaded Bag.