Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1913 — NEW IDEAS IN VANITY BOXES [ARTICLE]

NEW IDEAS IN VANITY BOXES

Article Has Become Practically Indispensable, and Ma.ny Quaint Designs Are Offered. The vanity box has become so much a part of a woman’s outfit that the manufacturers are discovering many odd ways for her to carry 1L To take one’s powder puff and lip rouge from one’s handbag has become commonplace; now a woman can tuck these in her bracelet. One of the new kind has flexible links of gold wire, with the vanity box on top in the shape of an oval medallion with a handsome monogram. Or Bhe can wear It round her neck as a sautoir. Fascinating vanity pendants are shown of all styles and prices, from tiny ones of French Jewelry to diamond studded boxes no bigger than a child’s locket. Among the most popular of the vanity cases for the neck are those of colored Russian enamel on a linked chain to match. Again, one may carry a vanity box on the end of the parasol, or as the head of a big hatpin, disguised as a charm for her chatelaine, or even set in one of the big buttons that ornament her corsage draperies. One girl, who wore a watch on the back of one riding glove, had set in the other a small vanity case ready for instant use when she dismounted. Another girl has a similar case in the end of her crop. The new opera bags include a vanity box and those that do not may be supplied with them by small pockets sewed to the interior of them.