Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — Dress Accessories [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dress Accessories

Pnrasols for a season or so contented themselves with plain coverings, and attended to their duty with much singleness of purpose. But now- that we may think of something else besides duty, they are unfurled under this summer’s sun touched up with pretty embellishments as in time gone by. They take their cue from hats to be worn with them, and pass it on to bags, so that there are twopiece and three-piece sets td match. Considering the chic of these matched sets it is very well worth while to choose hats and bags and parasols with reference to one another, Instead of quite independently. Usually it is the art of the milliner that inspires the decoration of parasol or bag that brings these feminine belongings Into the class of the hat worn with them. An example this appears in the dressy hat of black chantilly lace trimmed with ribbon and flowers and .the lace-draped parasol shown at the left of the picture above. Here the parasol is covered with the same silk as that which makes the foundation of the hat, bordered with the same ribbon as that in the band about the hat and finally veiled with the same fine black lace. There is a deep fall of lace about the edge of the parasol repeating the narrow, curtain of lace about the edge of the hat brim.

In the center of the picture a threepiece set reveals the effectiveness of tile new heavy silk weaves when used in accessories for street dress. A plain and checked silk make up the hat, bag and parasol, whose story is fully told by the photograph. Finally a plain silk parasol gets Into line with one of the summer outstanding style features by means of figures worked about It in white wool. Decoration of this kind appears on hats, bags.. frocks and wraps in endless designs and colors. It is an easy way in which td bring yesteryear's parasol up to date.