Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1917 — NEW BAGS PRETTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW BAGS PRETTY

Attractive Ones Can Be Made at Home at Small Cost Velvet, and Satin Are Popular Materials as Throughout the World of Dress. Bags are more alluring than ever Ibis year. . -- The best of them are expensive trifles, but there are others that are attractive without being extravagantly high-priced, and as is always the case when drawstring bags are In order, many a woman can make a ing bag for herself without spending much money. Velvet and fur and satin are the popular materials here as throughout the world of dress, with beautiful brocades and other fancy silks to help in the good work. For the omnipresent knitting bag of course all sorts of materials are used, from raffia to gold brocade; but the smaller handbag is less catholic and less spectacular, though often exceedingly original. The bead bag has lost none of its vogue and appears in delightful shapes, colorings and designs, one tone colorings being perhaps first choice this season. A fiandsbme brocade silk with The design outlined In beads makes an effective bag and one that calls for no great skill or labor on the part of the maker. Black or dark blue brocade, outlined in gold, silver or stele, is effective, and color schemes to match any costume are easily worked out. A rather long narrow drawstring shape with bead tassels across the" bottom to match the beading of the brocade is good-ldoking for this type of bag. Beads are used relieve fur, too, and very clever things are done With this combination. One model in seal is flat, rather small, mounted on dull gold and lias a butterfly embroidered in tiny gold beads on its side. A muff bag of fur with turnedback flaps at the ends has each flap finished by a bead tassel and a half

moon of solid beading just below the mounting on each side of the bag. There are many fur bags also without the beading, the short hair, supple furs, such as seal and mole, being especially liked for this purpose, while the long-haired furs are used for trimming bags of velvet, silk and cloth.

Bags of Fur, Velvet and Beads.