Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1913 — REALLY HANDSOME HANDBAGS [ARTICLE]

REALLY HANDSOME HANDBAGS

Elaborate Ornamentation, With CapaFeature Just tyowi Cut brocaded velvet and heavy silk plush with silver filigree fastenings make handsome bags for the middleaged woman. They are capacious enough to hold handkerchief, eyeglasses or lorgnette, coin purse and other small articles. Pocketbooks of the same materials with a half a dozen different compartments, the middle one clasped shut, are also made now and can be carried in the larger handbags. Silk and plush purses, something like the reticules carried by women a generation or two ago, purses about ten inches long and three Inches with a clasp at each end and a steel ring In the center to slip over the finger, are especially convenient to carry In the muff. Handles on the new hand bags do not reach the absurd length ÜBual last year. They are still long, some of them two or three feet. Leather bags frequently have handles of silk cords, and velvet and chenille cord, A new handle is made of black taffeta silk shirred over heavy cord.