Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1915 — BELTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS [ARTICLE]

BELTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS

Variety of Styles and Materials Allows Wide Choice —Military Effect Most Popular. A wide variety of belts suggests the military effect in soldat blue, sand, putty and black, and white. Usually metal buckles further carry out the military idea. A suede leather belt, .two inches wide, has stitched edges and is ornamented with a double row of ballshaped gilt military buttons. It is fitted with two pockets, which button with a single brass button. These belts come in various colors. A new military belt in suspender style is made of sodat blue suede, trimmed with gilt military braid and gilt buttons. It fastens with a plain brass buckle. Another belt is made of khaki-col-ored suede with stitched trimmings of black patent leather, finished with a brass buckle embossed with a flag. A belt of light-brown suede is trimmed with narrow-stitched straps of black patent leather and finished with brass buttons. It fastens with a circular gilt buckle in military design. A black and white kid belt in a checkerboard or block design comes in various patterns and different widths,. one and one-half and two Inches wide being the most popular. They are finished with nickel buckles. A striking white kid belt, two and one-half inches wide, is decorated with narro w-sti t c bed bands of black suede in two widths. Two stitched straps of the white kid, with covered buckle ends, form the fastening.'

The girdles of the 1830 period are extremely quaint and dressy. They are in a wide variety of models, combinations and colors and in various widths. They have quaint, old-fash-ioned forms of decoration, Including steel buckles, rhinestone ornaments, jet cabochons, military buttons, cameos, etc. An unusually dressy design is six inches wide and is made of battleship gray satin in a shirred and boned model. It is finished with shoulder .straps in suspender style, these being made of narrow black velvet ribbon, edged with deep black lace three and one-half inches wide. The same lace is used to form a large rosette at the center top of the girdle, where it is caught by a jet cabochon. Small jet buttons are used for further ornamentation.