Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1919 — NEWEST HANDBAG IS OF FUR [ARTICLE]

NEWEST HANDBAG IS OF FUR

Convenience Matches the Muff, Toque or Trimming of Coat—Many Other Striking Designs. Really perhaps there is nothing very novel In the handbags’ of the moment. But just the same there are many new ones in the shops, as fresh and crisp—if one can call a handbag of softest chiffon velvet crisp—as possible. One handbag that is extremely seasonable is that made of fur. It matches, of course, the muff or the toque or the collar or the trimming on one’s coat or frock. Sometimes, indeed, it is muff and handbag combined —although even this idea is not new, as it- was introduced a couple, of years ago. Then there are the lovely bags of chiffon velvet or velours made with, dull silver settings—not too much of the metal, and the metal not too bright and shiny. Some of these bags are the ones with the octagonal or oval top that clamps down at one sidegTaced with a really good mirror. And the bit of chased silver .is the framework of the top. and of course the metal clasp, as well; is of the silver. This same idea is carried out with dull woods of various shades of brown. Sometimes, with these bags, a big wooden bead forms part of . the tassel at the bottorh. Tassels are the almost universal finish to the smaller handbags. When a bag reaches that larger size that puts it in the class of a shopping bag, it is not tasseled at the bottom. But the handbag almost always swingsa tassel, of strands of chenile. Of heavy twisted silk, of beads, either of steel, of jet or of colored glass, or else a combination of wooden beads and heavy strands Of silk. Some of the new bags have linings of green, blue or pink * and white checked silk, quite like gipgham in general appearance Indeed, they are., of silk gingham. At first thought a little checked design of pink tod white is no suitable lining for a state-

ly bag of black chiffon velvet that emits anyway $lO, but still this n<*tv lining is novel, and it is dainty and fresh as well. Moreover, it wears fairly well, somethingnet-al ways to befeund. - ■ ~ .v '■ —_ Most of the handbags have small purses within that are attached to the top framework by means of little chains. This obviates the necessity of feeling blindly about in the depths of the bag for the change purse, as one has had to do in the small-mouthed bags of the moment.