Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1919 — NEW BEADED BAGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW BEADED BAGS

Conceits That Lend Daintiness to Milady’s Costumes. Women Can Easily Produce Their Own Handsome Bags and Purset at Home. Smart shops that specialize in novelties are devoting much space to the display of new beaded bags and there is sufficient variety in their shape and' coloring to make them intensely, interesting. Everything that can be made

with beads is exceedingly smart this season. Women who never thought that they would have the patience to attempt them are making beaded bags. Two pretty novelties are shown here. One Is a large affair in blue and tan beads sewed on in tiny squares. The handle is entirely of blue beads. Each square measures one-fourth inch high by one-half inch wide and each square requires from 32 to 36 beads. Many of the handsomest bags are so expensive that it is far more economical to make them at home. To develop a design in the beads these may be sewed singly, a back stitch taken with each bead. Another way is to string the beads on a strong thread, then couch down the string, taking stitches between the beads. Either method may be used with satisfaction and frequently the sewer imagines that she is snaking better progress if she strings the beads before sewing them onto the frame. Miser’s purses are very fashionable this year, and some beautiful designs are shown. The one illustrated is made of black silk trlcolette embroidered in steel beads. One can work out a number of delightful color schemes with these bags.

'The miser’s purse has a deep fringe of steel beads at one end and a heavy tassel of the same beads at the other end. It Is seldom that both ends are finished alike in the newest effects.

Miser's Purse With Steel Beads.

Beaded Bag in Blue and Tan.