The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-15
HER BELTS, GLOVES, SHOES
LEATHER IN FRESH BEAUTY 4 SIGHT OF SUMMER FASHIONS

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 Heels Correct--Gloves Big Drain on
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 Leather is an important item in fash ions calculations nowadays and the beautiful results obtained by the leather workers make the material suit able for many purposes to which IL could not have been applied few years ago.
 Almost every color in the fashlonaole scale is represented in. the coloreo feathers and the suppleness of the me feathers is surprising. One may handle leather as one would cloth, and thls fact gives wide scope to the designers of leather dress accessories.
 Upon costumes of certain types such as shooting clothes and auto mobile coats leather trimming IS much used by French tailors, and even upon dressy street frocks leather Is often in troduced as a detail of collar, cuffs, belt and waistcoat; but 1t is in the little things of dress that leather is con- spicious.
 Embroidered linen belts have to some extent been successful rivals of the leather belt this summer; but they have by no means elbowed the old favortte aside, and a great number of striking new designs in leather belts have been shown in the shops. The phenomenal belt success of the season has been Of course, the Elsie Janis model, and it has been sold in cheap quality until 1t is practically ubiquitous and a fas- tidious woman scorns the idea of wear ing one of the crush belts with hook fastening in the back, even though 1t be in the finest of leather.
 Wide soft belts of leather, plaited in- to slender long buckle in the back and finished with a handsome buckle to correspond in the front, are very popu- lar, and some of the buckles are as ex- pensive as they are beautiful. In Paris the old fashioned cameo has been taken up by the makers of belts and is the leading motif of some of the loveliest and most admired buckles,
 Coral, too, has had a great vogue and all of the semi-precious stones, such as topaz, amethyst, &c., have been pressed into service and have been initiated with considerable success in buckles of good design, though of cheap materials. Steel and jet have had their places In the making of fashionable belts, and excellent buckles of inlaid and etched gold and silver are well toward the top of the list.
 Often, however, the smartness of the belt depends upon the leather work ra- ther than upon the buckle, and feathers of different colors and of different fin ish are combined with decided success Patent leather Is very effective with dull finish leather, a fact which de- slgners have not been slow to grasp and some of the prettiest of the new belts are in black patent leather with cut work designs over white dull leather.
 The best of these models are com paratively narrow at the back and wid- en with a deep dip at the front, after the fashion of the two belts sketched among the cuts Another patent leather belt of good design has line of gold leather let in along the middle of the belt, and the patent leather on each side of the narrow gold line flares to fit the waist curves. A slender curved gold slide is set at the back of the belt and a simple gold buckle fastens 1t in front.
 Belts of one leather run through with narrow strips or laces of contrasting leather have won some popularity. though they have a tendency to make the waist look large, as have all fancy belts. The tan and brown feathers have had unusual prestige, thanks to the fancy for browns and good tan leather belts, like good tan leather shoes, have been few and far between lately, the supply not having been equal to the de- mand. Russet shoes, long wrinkled Bi- arritz gloves of the same tan, and a smart belt of russet leather are associ- ated in many modish street or outing costumes.
 Little that is distinctly new has ap- peared in the shoes of the season, and the unexpected vogue of the tan shoe has been the most noticeable thing in the province of foot wear; but occasion ally one sees a novelty, such as the side laced low shoes shown in one of the cuts, or the bedroom slipper in pale blue or pink kid, with black patent lea. ther trimmings, which is also pictured here. The Butcher cut has been first fa- vorite in tan low shoes, though the reg ulatlon laced ties are much worn and pumps are still fashionable in tan as in black and white
 Pumps arc not, however, so unre- servedly popular as they were last sea son, women having found that they were not so comfortable for general wear as might be desired If they are large enough to be comfortable it is al- most impossible to keep them on; and though the manufacturers have tried tc meet this difficulty by cutting the backs a little higher and closer fitting than in the earlier models, the objection stilI holds.
 White duck and canvas shoes arc n ore worn than ever before, and strip. ed duck has been introduced by the shoemakers this summer, but has not met with much success. Shoes of col ored linen and duck to match cos tunes, and shoes of colored leather also intended to carry out monotone costume effects, have been in demand and bronze ties and slippers have en ioyed more popularity than at any
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