The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26
NEW FANCIES OF M
FETCHING BAGS THAT Fashion
MAKE NECESSARY.

Tho Latest styles or RaticuIes-No Tips to
= Fashionable Shoes Nowadays Rniny-Day
CIoaks- Bracelets In Great Favor-Paris
Netisns In Chnins-The Metal Hair Pin to &c.
Ono fashion calls for another, as the temper.
ance orator says about drinks. Now that sleeves
are too tight for handkorchiefs TO DO tucked
away In them, and the newest coats and bodicos
made with the Russian blouse effect are pocket.
less, women have become quito dependent on
eage. II any woman would be up TO date, let
her not 60 baRless. Our grandmothers would
80 soon have thought Of going out with.
cut their hoopskirts as of leaving their
Foticules at home and their Rranddaugh-
GERS are beginning to feel themselves lost
without a bag Of one kind or another. Chate-
laine bags made OF fine leather are always good
form, and the newest ones are exceedingly
handsome. They are made of elephants hide
and alligator, lizard, seal and pig skin and arc
and in solid. gold. Many OF them are msssniS::
gently jewelied. There was a time when these
the late designs are carried in the hand by means
S more e St eomSoS ssSsi,p' n motb tbs is w sSTt%iniy VIII 4
not own SDn' Il to on %0i another, "G bas. every Srl
woman frankly admits 70 herself. that
y y bS anyaihins about out on Ple ans!s Icf 70 ada hSy and 4 Leather
caught here. there and everywhere. and IL Is
simply distractinE, to have 2 chatelaine with
chains, OF different lengths; but It i" tho thing to
DO, IL Is stylish and that .lightens the burden.
As those made Of silk j or SH satin Stia.'' Indeed six bags
at present are considered more modish. Black
made IN colors to match certain gowns. The
elk bags como in endless variety Of design.
large enough to hold a dainty handkerchief.
and they, have a lap-ovor pocket. The togglc Is
small snS 1i1ii Boys poe SEe9P therss; ' is always VA a s. room 1s m f fos
another batch of samples or a small parcel:
Ma 70 Of it the S ronSi ed, satin "a tina bags Ss s,i are mounted "nS .
lined with bright colored silks or satins.
Swell women have turned up the tips of their
noses Mt the tips on their shoes, and will have
none of them. Every woman who has her shoes
made to order. and it is economy for those with
very limited allowances to do this, Is having
them made perfectly plain, without a sign of
perforation or stitching even across the toe.
much less a tip. A fashionable bootmaker on
Fifth avenue said:
"These plain shoes have come to be a fad
among women who take q pride In dressing
their feet we'll. and it's a very sensible one, too,
for no shoe can look SO graceful or fit 80 well
with n seton tip. and the leather 10 apt to break
or crack about the perforations or stitchings
used to simulate one. French kid, kangaroo.
and calfskin arc the favorite materials. The
tipless vamps Of the shoe are made very long.
giving the ioSt the long, narrow appearance SO
These new style shoes without tins" re-
I1iTk6u u WOMAN VINO mas AQODIeQ LHem, re-
mind me of a gaiter that tho women OF the
South wore many years ago. The front scam
laced on the inside. No shoes are made n lem no o%Ge
days to ,ft and look SO well as did those South.
ern gaiters. This perfectly, plain boot 10 the
quit quit sending send n to Bal,imoEe Or T, louisville for
other woman in New York who sent down there
for those shoesf Why. bless you, yes. Fully a
dozen of the most smartly dressed women of my
and they were repaid for their pains, too, be-
cause I tell you those CATERS made the feet look
like ft subjects for poems"
Earrings aren't fashionable any more, espe-
cially those set with diamonds. Bracelets arc,
though, and the jewellers say they are kept
busy converting ear ornaments into arm orna-
ments. The new bracelets arc a pleasing com.
bination Of simplicity and magnifcence. II
a woman Is so fortunate as to possess q pair Of
handsome diamond earrings she has the two
stones set diagonally across a plain gold wire
which fastens around the arm. or she uses only
one stone. More elaborate bracelets are sot
with a cabochon beryl, topaz. garnet. sapphire.
every, one has handsome earrings to DO made
into bracelets. but that's no excuse for
saor %S%i Tor afl 3a1ss e wsss k hsi o. sFP Ss.os a1t
that has eyer been worn. except the broad gold
in black enamel of twenty years ago. is now on
the market. There are silver and gold bangles
with semi.precious stones at close intervals.
and bracelets made Of rare gems. They vary in
price from % cents to thousands OF dollars.
Now that Christmas has come and gone and
woman no longer wonders what she will get. 10
she satisfied with what she did getl A mere
man made a very strange speech about women
in q jewelry shop the other day. He had gone
in to look at u diamond and ruby bird brooch
or breastpin that he had had made to order for
his wife.
tTaabt ~ . -, - 80 ~ .oY..a IL. 49,.
enthusiastically, land won't she DO delighted
with It'll She was crazy for one of these pins -
Yes; it is a work of art" answered the man.
but whether she will be pleased with 1t or not
do not know. Women are 80 queer. They
claim that 1t 10 the hardest task on earth to
give mon things at Christmas that really please
them, but I say that Is only the second hardest
for SGR RsPd Gssss 'nHss * fG ssid b s9S% t Women the arc s"s Sc
nounee 1t perfectly, beautiful. say that they
would be perfectly happy 4 they, could only
gin to see faults in f It. 1 p tell ehi0y y GU. Mr. .n Sales es.
man, that's disoouraging to generosity. Old
ssTS siasms. I'm must IT, have b;s been been trying to get q e
when he wrote Man, beware Of that which
thou wishest with intensity. for II will surely
full, and my wife declared that the one she
looked at hore, which did not cost so much by
nine to ten that as Soon soon as asst she sI inds the Pin mis- is
really hers she will begin to pick 1t to pieces, to
the poor bird (which flew so high that I could
hardly bring It Down for herr until there is moth.
idiosyncrasies Of the sex. but, never mind, 1t
does not make them any tho less lovable, God
bless EN-"
Not all women belong to the Rainy Day Club,
90 rain cloaks have not gone out of vogue en-
tirely. The newest one is really a stunning gar
mont. 1t is a reg ular Newmarket. A woman
who owns one shouldn't mind a rainy spell ex'
tending over a period as long as that which kept
Mrs. Noah and her daughtcrs-in.law indoors
until they undoubtedly wished that they would
never hear Of rain again. Cravenette is the ma
terial used in this rain cloak, and the fact that
there is nothing about it offensive to the
sense OF smell. as is the, case with
generally. Its distinguishing feature. how
ever Is in the cut. The sleeves, which are plait.
Of arm.holc room, without spelling the shape