Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1911 — HANDSOME AND IN STYLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANDSOME AND IN STYLE

Bag Fashioned According to the Latest Fad May Easily Be Made i.■— ~~ —— ial—HfiHAtrr. ~ ~, The most fashionable bag at the present time to made In brocade, embroidered silk or velvet, of the shape of our Illustration. They are very expensive to buy, but clever fingers may easily fashion a very handsome bag at leu than a quarter of the price that would be paid for one in a store. Whatever material to selected should be cut out to pattern; It should then be tacked on-firm linen or canvas; strips of the material and lining used are joined in at the sides and lower part. The lining should be of silk cut to same pattern as outer material, and

slip-stitched in carefully at thVedges. The edge all round to trimmed with fancy braid. In the center and on either side there are thru flat buttons covered with the same material, and this arrangement to repeated on the lower part of the bag. A long loop of silk cord to attached to each side at the top, and the ends are knotted and frayed out into taueto.