Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1914 — Bags and Belts to Match [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bags and Belts to Match

THE colors that one may choose in selecting dress fabrics for the coming fall are varied enough, and many of them strong. But they pre not as vivid as those that have marked the passing season, and the handsomest of materials and fall suitings may be said to deserve the term "sedate,” which one hears applied to them. Rich materials in quiet colors and trimmed with natural furs invite the use of gorgeous touches of vivid colors in their composition into costumes. Hence now enters the belt* with bag to match, made of brocades or stripes or other designs from the most splendid fabrics-of the looms. It is the day of wide and sumptuous ribbons woven in the most intricate patterns and enriched with gold and silver threads. The costumer and the modiste looks to them for those dashes of lively color that are to be used In dress accessories. How well they answer the purpose! There is no color combination that cannot be found among them, and they are as rich looking and as full of life as diamonds.

The ever-present girdle requires the widest weaves, for it enwraps more of the figure than the waist line. It strays above or falls below or ignores the waist entirely and encircles the hips. . Or it becomes q sash which serves to wrap about both waist and hips and ties in a bow low at the back or hangs in straight fends at the front. But plain, soft ribbons only are used in this way. , Gorgeous brocades are to be more sparingly introduced in order to be effective. A girdle to match a bag like that shown In the picture needs to be carefully. The bag Is made of the most splendid of wide brocaded ribbon with plenty of gold and silver marking the high lights in the design. It is suspended by strape made of the ribbons from a jade bracelet and finished with an acorn made of silk and silver cord. . There are many good models shown in bags made of ribbon and one may also buy ornaments ready to use in finishing them.